The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain|American Literature
American Literature The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain About the author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born in 1835 in Missouri. During his boyhood, he had all the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a country environment, and grew up in tune with the life around him. Upon his father’s death , he became a printer’s apprentice, but could not earn much, and decided to become a river pilot. After piloting steamers for about four years, he went back to the printing trade. He wrote short pieces for the newspapers he worked on, and met many writers during the course of his work. Mark Twain was a talented writer, speaker and humorist whose own personality shined through his work. As his writing grew in popularity, he became a public figure and iconic American whose work represents some of the best in the genre of realism. His "The Innocents Abroad " brought him success and he married Olivia Langdon, from a socially prominent New York fam...