Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -- April 21, 1910) was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer better known by his pen name "Mark Twain." Clemens used the pseudonym "Sieur Louis de Conte" for his fictionalized biography of Joan of Arc (1896). Twain's greatest contribution to American literature is the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Other well-known works include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Life on the Mississippi (1883).Fiction
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