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Mark Twain (1835—1910) American writer, journalist, and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Sensitive to the sound of language, Twain introduced colloquial speech into American fiction. In?Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway wrote:?All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called?Huckleberry Finn... When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman.?(from Old Times on the Mississi