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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 popularized the saying in Chapters from My Autobiography, published in the North American Review in 1907. "Figures often beguile me," Twain wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" [4] [1] [2]
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Among them are quotes from luminaries like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain, who amusingly summed up spring's unpredictable weather by observing, "In the Spring, I ...
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [ 1 ] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".
Official portrait of Mark Twain in his DLitt (Doctor of Letters) academic dress, awarded by Oxford University. "What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins "what is man, that you are ...
A tie-in novel, Henry and Violet, confirms other details consistent with Twain's novel, such as Hank leaving Connecticut in the year 1889. In the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series by James A. Owen, Hank appears in several books as a time-traveling "Messenger" recruited by Mark Twain. Hank is able to travel through time and space ...
"To the Person Sitting in Darkness" is an essay by American author Mark Twain published in the North American Review in February 1901. It is a satire exposing imperialism as revealed in the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, the Boer War, and the Philippine–American War, expressing Twain's anti-imperialist views.