Mark_Twain

Mark Twain was a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorn Clemens,

born in 1835 and died in 1910. He was best known

as a humorist and for his series of fictional books involving

Tom Sawyer. His classics Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are widely read in schools across the U.S.

In recent years, there have been attempts to ban the book from

various libraries because Twain's use of local color

offends some people. His family suppressed an especially irreverent work, Letters from the Earth until recently.