[FreedominJesusChrist]

Any other American authors you want to know about? Preferably from that time era.

I personally liked the Transcendentalist-pessimists, like Hawthorne and Poe.

And if you ever get to the earlier American writers, I personally believe that John Smith's journals were greatly exaggerated and that James Fennimore Cooper's stories stunk.

[Amelia]

I personally liked the Transcendentalist-pessimists, like Hawthorne and Poe.

You'll grow out of it, if you haven't already.

[Torie]

Emily Dickenson is the ticket my dear. JMO.

[A.J.Armitage]

And if you ever get to the earlier American writers, I personally believe that John Smith's journals were greatly exaggerated and that James Fennimore Cooper's stories stunk.

Mark Twain wrote something called The Literary Offences of James Fennimore Cooper. I've never read it, though.