Mark Twain

His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but he is I better known by his pen name, Mark Twain.His career as Mark Twain, the writer, was about to begin.Mark Twain left his mark upon American literature.(1889) , are felt by many critics to mark the beginning of modern American literature.All of Twain's books are molded from the clay of his past; in most of them he is the hero.Expresses Twain's hatred of injustice and of the need for mercy.It was in Hartford, in the years between 1871 and 1891, that Twain wrote his two masterpieces.(1884) . These novels, together with other Twain writings of the.Like Twain's journalistic reports.Shortly before his death, he had remarked to a friend: I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It.