Portrait: Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

25 January 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  6 minutes

Mark Twain by Ernest H  Mills, ca 1895 © NPR

Mark Twain by Ernest H Mills, ca 1895 © NPR

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature“. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the “Great American Novel“. Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.   read more…

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