awarded annually since 1994 by the University of Iowa. It is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language. Friends published a collection of Arvin's essays and book reviews as American Pantheon in 1966. Among the principal authors discussed are: Louisa May Alcott, Henry Adams, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Dean Howells, Henry James, James Whitcomb Riley, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and John Greenleaf Whittier, as well as Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. One reviewer, though unhappy with the book as a representation of Arvin's career, took the opportunity to summarize Arvin's contribution to the study of American literature: "He sharpened to almost unbearable precision the conflict between 'personal wholeness' and the social environment." In 2001, Barry Werth published a biography, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal. It provoked a response from Arvin's nephew that criticized its portrayal of Arvin and particularly the charge that Arvin provided names of colleagues to the police in 1960. In the course of reviewing that biography, critic Benjamin DeMott allowed that Arvin's "penetrating books about Hawthorne and Whitman...were trailbreaking in their time and remain readable today." Mount Holyoke College held a symposium about Newton Arvin in 2001. In 2002, Smith College established the "Newton Arvin Prize in American Studies," a student award. In 2006, an independent documentary film titled The Great Pink Scare aired on the PBS series "Independent Lens". It covers the arrests of Arvin, Spofford, and Dorius, and their subsequent careers. The Scarlet Professor, an opera about Arvin by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book, premiered at Smith College in 2017. Works Author Hawthorne (Boston: Little, Brown, 1929), . Whitman (NY: Macmillan Company, 1938). Herman Melville (NY: Sloane 1950), . Longfellow: His Life and Work (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963), . Daniel Aaron and Sylvan Schendler, eds., American Pantheon: Essays (NY: Delacorte Press 1966). "Individualism and American Writers" in The Nation, October 14, 1931. "Religion and the Intellectuals" in Partisan Review, January, 1950. "Our Country and Our Culture" in Partisan Review, May 1952. Editor The Heart of Hawthorne's Journals, ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929). Hawthorne's Short Stories, ed., (NY: Vintage Books, 1946), . Notes References Sources Daniel Aaron, "Introduction," in Daniel Aaron and Sylvan Schendler, eds., American Pantheon: Essays (NY: Delacorte Press 1966) Benjamin DeMott, "The Sad Tale of Newton Arvin", The New York Review of