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A portrait of American
writer
Samuel Clemens, best known by his
pen name
Mark Twain
, in his later years. Twain is most noted for his novels
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
, which has since been called the
Great American Novel
, and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. Fellow author
William Faulkner
called Twain "the father of
American literature
".
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