автор: A. Tale of Today

Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the greatest humorist of the United States, and William Faulkner called him «the father of American literature». His novels include «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer» (1876) and its sequel, the «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» (1884), the latter often called «The Great American Novel».