American Literature

[1] Mark Twain is the pen name of author Samuel Langhorne Clemmons. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri. However, he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, near the banks of the Mississippi River, which landscapes seem to be another character in his stories.  Twain spent eighteen months on the Mississippi River training as a riverboat pilot, from this job he took the name “Mark Twain”, which is a reference to the nautical term, two fathoms deep). Berke, Amy; Bleil, Robert R; Cofer, P, Jordan; Doug, Davis; (n.d). He had the capacity to work in different fields and do it well as a writer, journalist, humorist, memoirist, novelist, and public speaker. Since he is considered one of the most important American writers of all time, an influential and important figure of American Literary Realism, a literary movement that took place during the second half of the 19th century, it was characterized for representing life as it is, its characters were common people, living a common life, so their mai