Noun
United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Source: WordNetAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. Nelson Algren
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. [...] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since. Ernest Hemingway
Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy. Ralph Steadman
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test. Kinky Friedman
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. Paul Theroux