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Which author is often called the “father of American literature?”
  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Ernest Hemingway
  3. William Faulkner
  4. Mark Twain
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Answer: D - Mark Twain is generally considered the “father of American literature,” a title bestowed on him by William Faulkner, no less. Those who support this estimation of Twain's literary worth argue that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were the first great American novels with a distinctly American, not European, voice.
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