From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 — April 21 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has since been called a Great American Novel. and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for 1601.
During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty.
Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
Novels by Mark Twain|Novels
- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The American Claimant
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- A Double Barrelled Detective Story
- A Horse's Tale
- The Mysterious Stranger
- Hellfire Hotchkiss
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant"
- "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship"
- "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls"
- "A Literary Nightmare"
- "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage"
- "The Invalid's Story"
- "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn"
- "The Stolen White Elephant"
- "Those Extraordinary Twins"
- "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
- "A Dog's Tale"
- "Extracts from Adam's Diary"
- "The War Prayer"
- "Eve's Diary"
- "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
- "My Platonic Sweetheart"
- "The Private Life of Adam and Eve"
Short story collections
- Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
- Sketches New and Old
- A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime
- Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches
- The Library of Humor
- Merry Tales
- The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
- The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
- The Washoe Giant in San Francisco
- "The Awful German Language"
- "Advice to Youth"
- "English As She Is Taught"
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- "Concerning the Jews"
- "A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth"
- "To the Person Sitting in Darkness"
- "To My Missionary Critics"
- "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany"
- "What Is Man?"
- "Christian Science"
- "Queen Victoria's Jubilee"
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"
- "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
- Letters from the Earth
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- Old Times on the Mississippi
- A Tramp Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Following the Equator
- What Is Man?
- Is Shakespeare Dead?
- Queen Victoria's Jubilee
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Mark Twain's Notebook
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
- Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
- The Bible According to Mark Twain