Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

Nina Baym wrote about this author "as feminist" in her essay "Thwarted Nature." In a letter to his publisher, this author complained about being outsold by a "damned mob of scribbling women." One of this author's characters peers into a mysterious diorama exhibited by an old German Jew before burning himself to death in a lime-kiln. This author wrote a short story in which Polly Gookin is wooed by a scarecrow brought to life by Old Mother Rigby, as well as a story about a man who becomes "the outcast of the universe" after banishing himself from his wife's house for twenty years. Another of his stories is named for a man who journeys to find the Unpardonable Sin and finds it in his heart. Herman Melville wrote a laudatory review of this author "and his mosses." For 10 points, name this American author of "Feathertop," "Wakefield," and "Ethan Brand," who published many of his short stories in his collection Twice-Told Tales.
Literature