Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, journalist, lecturer, novelist and essayist, who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially “The Innocents Abroad” (1869), “Roughing It” (1872), and “Life on the Mississippi”(1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885).
Autobiography of Mark Twain _ 1 The Mark Twain papers