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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
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Twain wrote the novel with the help of phonographic dictation, [2] the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. [3] This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although the first sentence of the second paragraph references weather ...
Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens, produced by Ken Burns in 2001 which aired on Public Broadcasting System on January 14 and 15, 2002. [1] Burns attempted to capture both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David. [2]
In September 1906, Harper and Brothers created another collection of previously published short stories and essays by Mark Twain. They compiled two separate versions of this collection: a trade print issued in red cloth binding with gold cornstalks and an ongoing series for subscription book buyers who had first purchased their sets from American Publishing Company in 1899.
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Mark Twain, a 2001 biographical documentary by Ken Burns; Mark Twain, a Disney riverboat attraction at multiple theme parks; Mark Twain: The Musical (1987), a stage musical biography by Jane Iredale and William P. Perry; Mark Twain: Words & Music (2001), a music and spoken-word album