Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain is best known for his stories of
American boyhood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn.
Lauded as the greatest humourist America has ever produced, even
Faulkner called him the "father of American literature" and Hemingway
said "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called
Huckleberry Finn". Known for his wit and humour, he exposed social
injustices and class barriers in his work, and was commonly described
ass a moralist and idealist.