【素材】Unit 3 文本 Mark Twain（人教）.docVIP

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain, detail of photo by Mathew Brady, February?7,?1871 Born November 30, 1835(1835-11-30)Florida, Missouri, United States Died April 21, 1910 (aged?74)Redding, Connecticut Pen name Mark Twain Occupation Writer, lecturer Nationality American Genres Fiction, historical fiction, children’s literature, non-fiction, travel literature, satire, essay, philosophical literature, social commentary, literary criticism Notable work(s) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Influences[show] Artemus Ward, Charles Dickens, Thomas Paine, Robert Henry Newell, Josh Billings, Alexander Carlyle, [1] Pliny, Herodotus, Plutarch, William Dean Howells, Robert Browning[2] Influenced[show] Kurt Vonnegut, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, H. L. Mencken, Hunter S. Thompson, Hal Holbrook, Jimmy Buffett, Ron Powers, Ralph Ellison, Ken Kesey, Robert A. Heinlein[1] Signature Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[3] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel,[4] and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is extensively quoted.[5][6] During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain the father of American literature.[7] Biography Early life Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835 to a Tennessee country merchant, John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847), and Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 – October 27, 1890).[8] He was the sixth of seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood. His brother Orion lived from July 17, 1825 to