Mark· Mark Twain, American writer and speaker, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark Twain" is his pen name, originally a term used by Mississippi River sailors to indicate the depth of water measured on the waterway. Representative works include the novels "One Million Pounds", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", etc.
When Mark Twain was 12 years old, his father died, so he had to drop out of school and work as a factory worker. Later, he changed many professions and worked as a pilot, a miner and a journalist on the Mississippi River. Gradually, I started writing some interesting sketches and started my writing career. He died on April 21, 1910, and is buried in Emmara, New York.
Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, plays, essays, poetry and other aspects. In terms of content, his works criticize irrational phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, and express the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who worked as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts And general readers agree that humor and irony are the characteristics of his writing. He experienced the development process of the United States from early capitalism to imperialism, and his thoughts and creations also showed a development stage from light ridicule to bitter irony to pessimism and world-weariness. In the early stage, he was famous for bitter irony, but in the later period, his language became more explicit and violent. .
Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature, and most of his major works have been translated into Chinese. In 2006, Mark Twain was ranked 16th among the 100 most influential people in the United States by the authoritative American journal "The Atlantic Monthly"
