<Dl> <Dt> 19th century </Dt> </Dl> <Ul> <Li> 1826: James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans </Li> <Li> 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter </Li> <Li> 1851: Herman Melville's Moby - Dick </Li> <Li> 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin </Li> <Li> 1876: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer </Li> <Li> 1884: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1826: James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans </Li> <Li> 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter </Li>

Who is often credited with writing the first american novel