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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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The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award is a literary prize given annually by the Mark Twain House. It celebrates writing that represents "modern voices that define our current America," similarly to how Adventures of Huckleberry Finn played an iconic role in "establishing a uniquely American voice in literature." [2]
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
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 the mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature (although the first sentence of the second paragraph references weather ...
Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens is played by Christopher Connelly in the 1977 made for TV film The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race, in which Twain is pitted in a rivalry against legendary "King of the Keelboaters" Mike Fink in a cross-country scavenger hunt, although the real-life Mike Fink died twelve years before Twain was born. Much of the story ...
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