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 Mississippi River sailors to indicate the depth of water measured on the waterway. His Representative works include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and so on.

Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, prose, poetry and other aspects. In terms of content, his works criticize unreasonable phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, express the writer's strong sense of justice and concern for the ordinary people as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts and readers generally agree that humor and satire 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. In 2006, Mark Twain was ranked 16th in the Atlantic Monthly, an authoritative American journal.

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Mark Twain, American writer and speaker, real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens ). "Mark Twain" was his pen name, originally a term used by Mississippi River sailors to indicate the depth of water measured on the waterway. Representative works include the novels "One Million Pounds", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", etc.

Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, essays, poetry and other aspects. In terms of content, his works criticize irrational phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, and express the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who worked as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts And general readers agree that humor and irony are the characteristics of his writing.

Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realist literature, and most of his major works have been translated into Chinese. In 2006, Mark Twain was ranked 16th among the 100 most influential people in the United States by the authoritative American magazine "The Atlantic Monthly". Extended information

Mark Twain's real name was "Samuel Langham Clemens". Mark Twain was his most commonly used pen name. It is generally believed that this pen name originated from his early years. Sailor's term meaning: Water 3 feet deep.

Samuel once worked as a navigator. When he and his partner were measuring the water depth, his partner shouted "Mark Twain!" , 1 xun is about 1.852 meters), which is a necessary condition for the safe navigation of ships. Another reason is that his captain, Sellers, was once a highly respected navigator. From time to time, he wrote sketches about the Mississippi River for newspapers under the pen name "Mark Twain."

In 1858, Captain Sellers published an article predicting that the city of New Orleans would be flooded. The naughty Samuel decided to make a joke on him, so he imitated his style and wrote a very biting satirical sketch. Unexpectedly, this game article deeply hurt the old captain's heart. The old captain gave up writing and the pen name "Mark Twain" disappeared from the newspaper.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Mark Twain