name: Mark Twain
birth_date: 1835-11-30 00:00:00
death_date: 1910-04-21 00:00:00
genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Short Stories, Literature & Fiction
influences: Ambrose Bierce, Jacques Loeb, E. Haldeman-Julius, Robert Ingersoll
avg_rating: 3.87
ratings_count: 2831517
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with  William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often 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. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with  William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often 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. ...more