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 real-life woman with this surname is the second namesake of a poem stating how people “never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” An author with this surname wrote two plays inspired by The Scarlet Letter, one depicting Hester (15[1])with five illegitimate children. In the Blood is by an author with 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 (10[1])Lincoln. (-5[1])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.” (10[1])For 10 points, give this surname (10[1])of the author of Topdog/Underdog and the latter activist in “Nikki-Rosa.” ■END■ (10[1])