Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. Widely praised as the greatest humorist the United States has produced, he was called the father of American literature by William Faulkner.

Twain is the author of several notable novels, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter of which is often referred to as the Great American Novel. His other works include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead Wilson, and The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which he cowrote with Charles Dudley Warner.