Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author, humorist, businessman, publisher, and lecturer who lived from November 30, 1835, to April 21, 1910[1]. William Faulkner referred to him as "the father of American literature," and he was hailed as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced"[2]. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), are two of his books. The latter is frequently referred to as the "Great American Novel"[4]. Along with Pudd'nhead Wilson and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Twain also co-authored The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner..