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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. Twain is noted for his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel. He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature.Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.