ONLINE The Sinners All Bow: an author talk with Kate Winkler Dawson Online
Kate Winkler Dawson is the author of The Sinners All Bow: two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne. Sarah Maria Cornell, an unmarried 30 year old factory worker in Fall River, Massachusetts, was found hanging near a haystack on a local farm in 1832. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Sarah Maria Cornell's mother was Lucretia Leffingwell who grew up in the Leffingwell house in Norwich, CT.
Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.
This is a virtual event, therefore, registration is required.
Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer and podcaster whose hit podcasts Tenfold More Wicked, Wicked Words, and Buried Bones appear on the Exactly Right network. She is the author of Death in the Air, American Sherlock, and All That Is Wicked, and is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.
Co-sponsored by the Groton Public, Lyme Public, Bill Memorial, Public Library of New London
and the Otis Library of Norwich!
- Date:
- Thursday, June 5, 2025
- Time:
- 6:30PM - 7:30PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Author talk Library Event Talk/Lecture