Captain John Smith
first American author

Benjamin Franklin
The first widely read American author

Washington Irving
first American to gain an international literary reputation
first writer to develop a unique American style
father of American Literature

Edgar Allan Poe
inventor of the American short short

Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson
the bridge poets between American Romanticism and the 20th century

James Fenimore Cooper
was the father of the American novel

Emerson
In"Self Reliance espouses the ideas of Transcendentalism

و اخيرا

Realism reaction against romanticism
Naturalism (sub-genre of Realism