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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway

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If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. Jane Smiley

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. Arthur Phillips

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My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into. Ben Miller

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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. Christopher Dawson

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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. Dashiell Hammett

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. David Eagleman

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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world. David Morrell

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I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. Joshua Cohen

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I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. Mark Helprin

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For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. Michael Patrick Hearn

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I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miguel Syjuco

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February. Natasha Trethewey

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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it. Nathaniel Philbrick

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American literature has always been immigrant. Salman Rushdie

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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Wilbur Smith

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The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen. Will Self

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