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Captain John Smith became the first American writer. The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. Poor Richard’s Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. In Washington Irving’s Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile