Twain, Mark (pen name of Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) - American humorist
whose pseudonym was adopted from his days as a Mississippi steamboat pilot,
"mark twain" meaning "two fathoms deep." He introduced colloquial speech
into American writing and was the most popular writer of his time.
Tom Sawyer (1876) - Recounts the adventures of Tom Sawyer, a boy who could
not stay out of trouble, and his friend Huck Finn. Twain wrote three
sequels to this classic story of life on the Mississippi River.
