Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and lecturer. Raised on the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, he drew on that world for his two greatest works — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter of which Ernest Hemingway called the source of all modern American literature. His voice — vernacular, irreverent, and deeply moral — defined American prose style.