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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910), better known as Mark Twain, was a famous American writer, humourist, and essayist. He is often called the greatest humourist the U.S. has ever had, and writer William Faulkner called him %u201cthe father of American literature.%u201d Twain is best known for his books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which is often called the %u201cGreat American Novel.%u201d He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur%u2019s Court (1889), Pudd%u2019nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a town that later became the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Early in life, he worked as a printer and a typesetter, helping his brother Orion Clemens with his newspaper. Later, Twain became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, an experience he wrote about in Life on the Mississippi (1883).MARK TWAIN