<P> Charles Brockden Brown is the earliest American novelist whose works are still commonly read . He published Wieland in 1798, and in 1799 published Ormond, Edgar Huntly, and Arthur Mervyn . These novels are of the Gothic genre . </P> <P> The first author to be able to support himself through the income generated by his publications alone was Washington Irving . He completed his first major book in 1809 entitled A History of New - York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty . </P> <P> Of the picaresque genre, Hugh Henry Brackenridge published Modern Chivalry in 1792 - 1815; Tabitha Gilman Tenney wrote Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventure of Dorcasina Sheldon in 1801; Royall Tyler wrote The Algerine Captive in 1797 . </P> <P> Other notable authors include William Gilmore Simms, who wrote Martin Faber in 1833, Guy Rivers in 1834, and The Yemassee in 1835 . Lydia Maria Child wrote Hobomok in 1824 and The Rebels in 1825 . John Neal wrote Logan, A Family History in 1822, Rachel Dyer in 1828, and The Down - Easters in 1833 . Catherine Maria Sedgwick wrote A New England Tale in 1822, Redwood in 1824, Hope Leslie in 1827, and The Linwoods in 1835 . James Kirke Paulding wrote The Lion of the West in 1830, The Dutchman's Fireside in 1831, and Westward Ho! in 1832 . Robert Montgomery Bird wrote Calavar in 1834 and Nick of the Woods in 1837 . James Fenimore Cooper was also a notable author best known for his novel, The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826 . George Tucker produced in 1824 the first fiction of Virginia colonial life with The Valley of Shenandoah . He followed in 1827 with one of the country's first science fictions, A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians . </P>

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