Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) who also wrote under the pseudonyms John Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Agricola; Un Membre Adoptif de la Nation Oneida and others, was a French-American writer. In 1779, during the American Revolution, the faltering health of his father forced him to travel to Europe. In 1782, in London, he published a volume of narrative essays entitled the Letters From an American Farmer. The book quickly became the first literary success by an American author in Europe and turned Crevecoeur into a celebrated figure. He was the first writer to describe to Europeans-employing many American English terms-the life on the American frontier and to explore the concept of the American Dream, portraying American society as characterized by the principles of equal opportunity and self-determination. His work provided useful information and understanding of the "New World" that helped to create an American identity in the minds of Europeans by describing an...

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