Mark Twain is an American writer and speaker whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Mark Twain was his pen name, a term originally used by Misisipi River sailors to indicate (表示) the depth of water measured on the waterway.
His family was so poor that Mark Twain did not receive much teaching. His father died when he was very young. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, prose, poetry and other aspects. His representative works include the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and so on.
In terms of content, his works criticize (批判) unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, express the writer's strong sense of justice (正义)and care for the ordinary people as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts and readers generally agree that humor and satire (讽刺) are the characteristics of his writing.
Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature. Most of his works have been translated into Chinese.
