Claim: Emperor Norton is immortalized by authors from different countries including Sweden, America, and England.
Evidence: Norton has been immortalized as the basis of characters in the literature of writers Mark Twain , Robert Louis Stevenson , Christopher Moore , Morris and Goscinny , Selma Lagerlöf , and Neil Gaiman.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens -LRB- November 30 , 1835 -- April 21 , 1910 -RRB- , better known by his pen name Mark Twain , was an American writer , humorist , entrepreneur , publisher , and lecturer.
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman -LRB- -LSB- ˈɡeɪmən -RSB- born Neil Richard Gaiman , 10 November 1960 -RRB- is an English author of short fiction , novels , comic books , graphic novels , audio theatre , and films.