I just love American literature - it was written in the US and it's colonies.
What kind of American literature do you like best, history, romance, something else?
I like the fictional stories, mostly around the 18th and 19th centuries when the first novels were published.
What is one of your favorite fiction books that I could read?
Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer. It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published. An early example is William Hill Brown's "The Power of Sympathy" published in 1791. Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fall in love without knowing they are related. 
With an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key
." He told Italians there was "a lot about your history you have yet to come to grips with. This film is our interpretation, and I stand behind it." McBride, the novel's author, stated: "As a black American, I understand what it's like for someone to tell your history... unfortunately, the history of World War Two here in Italy is ours as well, and this was the best I could do... it is, after all, a work of fiction.”