American Fiction short stories and novels entertain readers. One of the leading authors of Romanticism was 1) , who wrote mystery and detective short stories. This first detective story, 2) , had several testimonies, or 3) , from the people who heard something or saw something about the crime. To get good evidence, the clues have to be 4), or supported, by more than one person. Later, Scottish author 5) modeled his famous series Sherlock Holmes after these American detective stories.

In the category of fiction novels, for example, the first American fiction novel, 6) , was about morality issues. Additionally, the first African-American novelist was 7) , who wrote the novel, Clotel, about the problems of bi-racial women. Novels such as this have realistic conflicts and are called the 8) genre. More imaginative stories were like those of the author 9) , who wrote “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Later on, the African-American artistic movement, the 10) arrived, which promoted racial 11) . However, during this time, due to industrialism and the world wars, the Modernism movement typically characterized an attitude of 12) . Yet, in America today, audiences have the opportunity to read stories from authors who come from all over the world and tell about different cultural experiences in the 13) genre.