Written by Nathaniel Hawthorn, The minister's black veil one of the best known and respected short stories. He is one of the greatest of all American fiction writers. The story was published in 1836 of the symbol and remembrance Atlantic and edited by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in Twice-These Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837. The story brings us back to the American ecclesiastical atmosphere of the nineteenth century, puritanical and sometimes superstitious, and tells the story of Reverend Hooper, who once caused fear and confusion among ...