Mark Twain

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 November 1835 21 April 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humourist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel". Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894),