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What was the first book to be written in America?

A True Relation
The Whole Booke of Psalmes
America’s Gutenberg Bible
Leaves of Grass

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Answer:

A True Relation

Step-by-step explanation:

Captain John Smith, who led the earliest English exploration of the Virginia area, kept a careful account of his exploits, but he embellished them quite a bit. His account, A True Relation, 1608, was the first book to be written in America.

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It was the "Whole Booke of Psalmes" that was the first book to be written in America, although a more accurate term would be "published," since of course other things were written before this. 
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