What was the first American novel?

July 11, 2020November 9, 2011 by Pamela Landy

In 1789, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown was published.

This first American novel, written by the son of a Boston clockmaker, concerned seduction, incest, rape, and suicide.

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