Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

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

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

American literature has always been immigrant.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

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