In a poem, a woman with this surname “shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods aside” and had the sun “rest on her shoulders bringing the heat and the light of truth.” A woman with this surname is the second namesake of a poem stating how people “never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” (15[1])An author with this surname wrote two plays inspired by The Scarlet Letter, one depicting Hester (15[1])with five illegitimate children. (15[1])(*) In the Blood is by an author with (10[1])this surname, who wrote about the slicing of a nylon stocking holding a $500 inheritance before a game of three-card monte by Booth and Lincoln. In a poem, Nikki Giovanni paired her first name with an activist with this surname who, in a Rita Dove poem, is “On the Bus.” For 10 points, give this surname of the author of Topdog/Underdog and the activist in “Nikki-Rosa.” ■END■