Captain John Smith (first American writer).
Anne Bradstreet；The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America（colonists living）
Edward Taylor(the best puritan poet)
John Cotton ”the Patriarch of New England” teacher spiritual leader Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Poor Richard’s Almanack Thomas Jefferson：
Political Career Thoughts The Declaration of Independence we hold truth to be self-evidence
Philip Freneau “Father of American Poetry” The Wild Honey Suckle American Romanticism optimism and hope
Nationalism Washington Irving “Father of American Literature short story” The first “Pure Writer” A History of New York marked the beginning of American Romanticism! “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper Father of American sea and frontier novels Leather stocking Tales The Last of the Mohicans The Pioneers The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer
Edgar Allan Poe father of detective story and horror fiction Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque “MS. Found in a Bottle” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
“The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Masque of the Red Death”“The