Twain, Mark

1. The nom de plume of Samuel L. Clemens , an American author and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is famous for his stories with settings along the Mississippi River ; his books include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi , and The Prince and the Pauper .

Notes

Twain, who was once a steamboat pilot, took his pen name from a term used in river navigation meaning “two fathoms deep.”