The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of The Scarlet Letter. In the Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne goes to Boston, Massachusetts to find a place to live and to wait for her husband to arrive. Hester Prynne is a young woman with a talent for sewing. Hester Prynne commits adultery but stays strong and couragiously faces her punishments. Hester becomes pregnant from an adulteress affair with the minister while waiting for her husband to come to America. She feels ashamed of her adulteress sin but is too proud to let that ruin her life. Hester says, “It (A) is to deeply branded. Yee cannot take it off and would I might endure his