Mark Twain Essay Examples

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He was a central figure in the prevailing literary movements of the second half of the nineteenth century: realism and naturalism.

United States

Born November 30, 1835
Died April 21, 1910 (aged 74)

Writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer

Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel, " and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction. His big break was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1867).