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U.S. writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)- Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered by many to be among the greatest U.S. novels.
Mark Twain = U.S. writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he is almost always referred to by his pen name.
- The only famous authors he could think of were Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.Louis Sachar -- Holes
- After losing his entire fortune to bad investments in the early 1880s, he sat down to, with the help of editor Mark Twain, write his memoirs.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- It's all a collaboration of Kafka and Mark Twain and Martini.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- At the Ambassador's reception I met, for the first time, Mark Twain.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- I love Mark Twain—who does not?Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- I write a five-page paper on Mark Twain over the weekend for Quang-ha.Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
- Here, in a nutshell, is Surfing's Story 101: Mark Twain tried surfing while on a visit to Hawaii in the 1800s.Bethany Hamilton -- Soul Surfer
- I asked the desk clerk and he had given me a list of names of authors who had either visited or written entire books there: Mark Twain, 0.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- Bailey had finished his chores and was already behind the stove with Mark Twain.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- He read a half-dozen Coopers, all of Mark Twain, but failed to finish a single book of Howells or James.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer They did let Elinor into the bank, despite her torn stockings.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- Mark Twain gives us the Mississippi, Hart Crane the Hudson-East-Mississippi/generic-American, and T. S. Eliot the Thames.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right alongside of Mark Twain.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- And then there we were, at the clapboard building that had been the courtroom of Samuel Clemens's dad.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- Alex was big on the classics: Dickens, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Jack London.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- But here, in these boxes, were dozens of hardback copies of everything from Mark Twain to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
- Twenty-five years earlier Mark Twain had made the same observation.Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language
- To both my parents I owe my early acquaintance with a beloved Mark Twain.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
Mark Twain = U.S. writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain = U.S. writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn