Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American author and humorist whose Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer defined American vernacular literature and social satire.

Twain combined vernacular realism, sharp social satire, and moral seriousness to produce the quintessential American novel — Huckleberry Finn — which confronted slavery's moral horror through a boy's moral development; his output defined American humorous literature.