Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (født 30. november 1835, død 21. april 1910) var en berømt og populær amerikansk humorist, forfatter og foredragsholder. Han er bedre kendt under sit nom de plume Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway har udråbt hans Huckleberry Finn som grundlæggeren af den amerikanske litteratur.

Navnet "Mark Twain" stammer fra hans barndom. Han boede ved den lavvandede Mississippi, og han hørte hele tiden matroserne på floddamperne råbe "Mark twain" (to favne), når de målte vanddybden med måle-reb og råbte vanddybden. Der var risiko for at grundstøde på en mudderbanke i floden. "Twain" er et gammelt ord for "two".

Kort før sin død skrev Mark Twain sin selvbiografi, der efter hans eget ønske først udkom i 2010. Eksperter mener, det skyldes hans yderst åbenhjertige udtalelser.

Bibliografi 
 (1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiktion)
 (1869) Naive rejsende, 1878, Innocents Abroad (non-fiktion rejsebeskrivelse)
 (1872) Roughing It (non-fiktion)
 (1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiktion)
 (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiktion)
 (1880) A Tramp Abroad (non-fiktion rejsebeskrivelse)
 (1880) 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (fiktion)
 (1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiktion)
 (1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiktion)
 (1884) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiktion)
 (1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiktion)
 (1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiktion)
 (1894) The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (fiktion)
 (1896) Tom Sawyer Detective (fiktion)
 (1897) Following the Equator (non-fiktion rejsebeskrivelse)
 (1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiktion)
 (1905) King Leopold's Soliloquy (politisk satire)
 (1905) The War Prayer (fiktion)
 (1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiktion)
 (1906) What Is Man? (essay)
 (1907) A Horse's Tale (fiktion)
 (1909) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiktion)
 (1909) Letters from the Earth (fiktion, udgivet posthumt)
 (1916) The Mysterious Stranger (fiktion, udgivet posthumt)

Bøger 
 The Innocents Abroad 1869
 Curious Republic of Gondour 1870
 A Burlesque Autobiography 1871
 Roughing It 1872
 The Gilded Age 1873
 Sketches New and Old 1875
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876
 Carnival of Crime in CT 1877
 A Tramp Abroad 1880
 1601 1880
 The Prince and the Pauper 1881
 The Stolen White Elephant 1882
 Life on the Mississippi 1883
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885
 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889
 The American Claimant 1892
 Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
 The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1894
 Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896
 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol 1 1896
 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol 2 1896
 How to Tell a Story and Others 1897
 Following the Equator 1897
 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories 1900
 A Double Barrelled Detective 1902
 Extracts from Adam's Diary 1904
 A Dog's Tale 1904
 The $30,000 Bequest 1906
 What is Man? and Other Essays of Mark Twain 1906
 Mark Twain's Speeches 1906
 Christian Science 1907
 A Horse's Tale 1907
 Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
 Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven l909
 The Mysterious Stranger 1916 uncompleted
 Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories 
 Essays on Paul Bourget 
 Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences 
 Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again 
 In Defense of Harriet Shelley 
 On the Decay of the Art of Lying 
 Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion 
 The Boys Life of Mark Twain 
 Those Extraordinary Twins 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume I Part 1 1835-1866 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume I Part 2 1866-1875 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume II Part 1 1875-1886 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume II Part 2 1886-1900 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume III Part 1 1900-1907 
 Mark Twain a Biography Volume III Part 2 1907-1910 
 Mark Twain's Letters 1867-1875 
 Mark Twain's Letters 1876-1885 
 Mark Twain's Letters 1886-1900 
 Mark Twain's Letters 1901-1906 
 Mark Twain's Letters 1907-1910 
 Mark Twain's Letters, Complete

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger 
 

 
 
 1884: Huck Finns Hændelser. I fuldstændig Oversættelse ved B. A. Duurloo, København og Kristiania, Det Dansk-Norske Forlagskompagni, V. Scultz's Bogtrykkeri A/S (1910)

Romanforfattere fra USA
Amerikanere i 1800-tallet
Amerikanere i 1900-tallet
Pseudonymer