Kate Winkler Dawson

The St. Louis County Library Foundation and The Novel Neighbor Present True Crime Historian and Podcaster Kate Winkler Dawson

 
Author of “The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne”
 

Acclaimed podcaster and true crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with a charismatic Methodist minister was uncovered, more questions emerged. Using modern investigative advancements, Dawson brings justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present.

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