“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead”
— Mark Twain (1835–1910)
Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which are often considered masterpieces of American literature.