Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, arguably the greatest humorist the United States has ever produced and the author of travel narratives and novels that have shaped American literature. His most famous books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ryan Simmons is an English instructor at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane, Washington. He is the author of Chesnutt and Realism, a book on Twain's contemporary, Charles W. Chesnutt.
"[Twain's] attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing." -The New York Times"[Mark Twain] was a literary artist of the very highest skill and sophistication....he was a destructive satirist of the utmost pungency and relentlessness, and the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion, whether social, political, or religious, that ever lived." -H. L. Mencken
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