You of course can disagree, but my experience matches OP too. I understand every country likes to hype up its writers, but at least outside America this is mor

You of course can disagree, but my experience matches OP too. I understand every country likes to hype up its writers, but at least outside America this is more or less the assessment of its writers: - Great, incredible writers, worthy of every accolade: Poe, Melville, Faulkner and probably Whitman. - Good, solid writers, a tier below: Hemingway, Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Pynchon, Dos Passos, Gaddiss and many others...that sort of caliber, nobody will complain if one of them is included among the great writers but nobody will miss them either - Literary mediocrities, overhyped by a culture with a serious lack of good literature: Frazen, DFW, etc - All the pulpy and trashy authors.