Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, universally known by his nom de plume Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1935, in the small American village of Florida, Missouri. In addition to the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, he wrote The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Life on the Mississippi (1883). Mark Twain succumbed to a heart attack on 21 April, 1910, at the age of seventy-four.