0_Apprentice
I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol
1_Wizard
Well you have a lot to pick from. American literature is literature written or produced in the United States
0_Apprentice
Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?
1_Wizard
Mark Twain is very good.  Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature
0_Apprentice
Ok I have heard of him who else would you suggest?
1_Wizard
I would suggest you search for what interest you. in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels
0_Apprentice
I had no idea they went back that far! 
1_Wizard
"The Power of Sympathy" was published in 1791. It is very very good