American, USA.

Stephen Vincent Benet. I have this two-volume set, one of his poetry and one of his prose, that are just... the best thing ever. I wish everyone in the world could read them, and especially every American, as he did so much in terms of capturing voice, legend, and real culture and history of the United States. He's one of my all-time favorite poets. He won a Pulitzer for his poetry-prose story John Brown's Body, about the American Civil War, which weaves together plot lines of several different characters plus expresses narrative views on the time and themes. It's an amazing story, yet I've never met anyone else who's read it, or knows the author by name. Probably his most famous short story is "The Devil and Daniel Webster," though most people know only the plot concept from parody, and haven't read the story itself. And I think his love poems are some of the best ever written, because they really seem to capture the soul of the woman herself; not just the feeling of love, but the personality of those in the relationship.