Humorist Mark Twain-American satirist author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by the pen name Mark Twain was an American author, humorist, satirist, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is his most widely acclaimed novels of all times. It has since been called the Great American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also famous for his quotations. He was popular for his keen wit and incisive satire. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

Mark Twain was born in Florida in November 1835. He was the sixth child of seven children. At an early age Twain moved to Hannibal with his parents. His stay at Hannibal inspired him to write the Adventures of Tom Sawyer based on his youth and his schoolmates in Hannibal. The character of Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child The book introduced the character of Huckleberry Finn in a supporting role, based on Twain's friend. Following which he wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is considered the first Great American Novel of all times. After this novel he wrote Life on the Mississippi where Mark Twain narrate his experiences after 22-year of absence from Mississippi. Also he tells us for the first time the actually meaning of his Pseudonym ‘Mark Twain’. In 1906 Mark Twain started writing his autobiography. He was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the Oxford University. In his initial career years Mark Twain included humor and satire in his writing. In all of his writings Mark Twain has rendered colloquial American speech. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was his first important work published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. He wrote many letters and subsequently wrote 2 travel books, The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress and Roughing It as a sequel to The Innocents Abroad.


Mark Twain died in April 1910 after a heart attack in Connecticut. In his later life he suffered from depression following the deaths of his daughters Jean and Susy. Mark Twain is buried in his wife's family plot in Elmira, New York.