Samuel+Langhorne+Clemens+aka+Mark+Twain

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" were written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a famous American writer. His pen name was Mark Twain and he is known by this name all over the world, but he also published pieces of literature under names like Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Josh, Muggins, Grumbler and Sieur Louis de Conte. Mark Twain wasn't just a writer but also humorist, satirist, auto biographist and lecturer. He was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His father was a country merchant. He had six siblings, but only three of them survived their childhood. When he was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. This should be the antetype for St. Petersburg, the city in which the story of Huckleberry Finn begins. At the age of twelve Twain quit school and became a journeyman printer and by the age of seventeen his first sketches were appearing in the newspaper he type set. During the late 1850s Twain pilotet steamboats on the Mississippi. It is said that he enjoyed this work what could explain his love to the Mississippi and the fact that basically the whole novel is taking place on or by the river. After the civil war closed the river to commercial traffic, Marc Twain delivered brieve service in the Confederate militia and then traveled west, working as a silver miner and reporter in Nevada and California. That was the time he first published under the name Mark Twain, a nautic term indicating two fathoms of water (about 6 foot). In 1856 he published his first important sketch ("Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog") in a New York newspaper. This story was widely popular and was also appearing in his first book //The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches//. The book was published while Twain set out on a cruise to southern Europe and the Middle East. Twain is considered to be the father of modern American literature. He was the first to break with the genteel traditions of the 19th century by endowing his characters and narratives with the natural speech patterns of the common person, and by writing of subjects that were considered vulgar so far. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is by far not Twains only big success. This is a list of all his books:

** Non-Fiction **

 * [|Life on the Mississippi]
 * [|Roughing It]

** Fiction **

 * [|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]
 * [|A Horse's Tale]
 * [|Huckleberry Finn]
 * [|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
 * [|The Prince and the Pauper]
 * [|The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson]

** Poetry **

 * [|O Lord, Our Father]

** Short Stories **

 * [|A Burlesque Biography]
 * [|A Dog's Tale]
 * [|A Helpless Situation]
 * [|A Telephonic Conversation]
 * [|Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale]
 * [|Italian with Grammar]
 * [|Italian without a Master]
 * [|The Californian's Tale]
 * [|The First Writing-machines]
 * [|The Five Boons of Life]
 * [|Was it Heaven? Or Hell?]