Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), one of thre foremost American novelists and humorists. Twain's best known works, primarily set in the pre-Civil War South, include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Work  Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The Prince and the Pauper, among others.