World Classics Library: Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humourist. He is noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, where he apprenticed with a printer. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before eventually becoming a writer.