Mark Twain

Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He is best known as a humorist and for his series of fictional books involving Tom Sawyer. His classics Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are widely read in schools across the U.S., as well as in many other western countries.

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In recent years, there have been attempts to ban the book from various libraries, because Twain's use of local color offends some people. His family suppressed an especially irreverent work, Letters from the Earth until recently.

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