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en-wikipedia-org-2300		View source for American literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2518	197	63	[[File:Houghton STC 22790 Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, John Smith.jpg|right|thumb|[[John Smith (explorer)|Captain John Smith]]'s ''A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia...'' (1608) can be considered America's first work of literature.]] Print.</ref> The first item printed in [[Pennsylvania]] was in [[German language|German]] and was the largest book printed in any of the colonies before the American Revolution.<ref name="Baym, Nina 2007" /> Spanish and French had two of the strongest colonial literary traditions in the areas that now comprise the United States, and discussions of early American literature commonly include texts by [[Samuel de Champlain]] alongside English-language texts by [[Thomas Harriot]] and [[John Smith (explorer)|Captain John Smith]]. [[John Smith (explorer)|Captain John Smith]] could be considered the first American author with his works: ''A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia...'' (1608) and ''The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles'' (1624).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2300.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2300.txt