When you are calling something American, what does that mean? If you subtract the fact that someone was born in or lives in America, what makes a specific work or author American? 

prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you select a specific author and describe how and why his or her work is American. 

• Instead of arguing simply that the preparer was born in the United States, place his or her work in the context of the larger literary movements of this period. 

• Analyze how the factors which shape American literature in general also shape this author in particular.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.