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Ernest Hemingway put it this way: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.' … [I]t's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
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"Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are heirs…. I call him the father of American literature."
— William Faulkner, 1955 interview
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