Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30. november1835–21. april1910), betre kjend under psevdonymetMark Twain, var ein namngjeten og populær amerikansk humorist, forfattar, journalist og forelesar. Han er mest kjend for romanane sine om Huckleberry Finn og Tom Sawyer. Forfattaren William Faulkner meinte Twain var «den amerikanske litteraturens far». Forutan romanar skreiv han og reiseskildringar og samfunnskritiske reportasjar om korrupsjon og klasseskille i samtida. Twain var fødd i Florida i Missouri og døydde i Redding i Connecticut.
Kjappe fakta
Mark Twain
Pseudonym
Mark Twain, Sieur Louis de Conte, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
1867: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (forteljing)
1868: General Washington's Negro Body-Servant (forteljing)
1868: My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (forteljing)
1869: The Innocents Abroad (reiseskildring)
1870-71: Memoranda, månadleg spalte for The Galaxy
1871: Mark Twain's Burlesque: Autobiography and First Romance (forteljing)
1872: Roughing It (sakprosa)
1873: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (forteljing, gjort om til skodespel)
1875: Sketches New and Old (forteljingar)
1876: Old Times on the Mississippi (sakprosa)
1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, umsett for «Norsk Barneblad» av Johannes Horvei, «Tom Sawyer og eventyri hans» og igjen av Kari Wærum i 2000, «Tom Sawyer»
1876: A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (forteljing)
1877: A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (noveller)
1877: The Invalid's Story (forteljing)
1878: Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches (forteljingar)
1880: A Tramp Abroad (reiseskildring)
1880: 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (forteljing)
1882: The Prince and the Pauper, til norsk ved Johannes Horvei i 1945, «Prinsen og fattigguten»
1883: Life on the Mississippi (sakprosa)
1884: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, til norsk ved Johs. Farestveit i 1974
1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (forteljing)
1892: The American Claimant (forteljing)
1892: Merry Tales (forteljingar)
1892: Those Extraordinary Twins (forteljing)
1893: The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (forteljingar)
1894: Tom Sawyer Abroad (forteljing)
1894: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (forteljing)
1896: Tom Sawyer, Detective (forteljing)
1896: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, «Jeanne d'Arc: kva eg kjem ihug um henne av Sieur Louis de Conte» på norsk ved Marta Steinsvik, 1905
1897: How to Tell a Story and other Essays (sakprosa)
1897: Following the Equator (reiseskildring)
1898: Is He Dead? (skodespel)
1900: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (forteljing)
1900: A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth (artikkel)
1901: The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (satire)
1901: Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (satire)
1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness (artikkel)
1902: A Double Barrelled Detective Story (forteljing)
1904: A Dog's Tale (forteljing)
1904: Extracts from Adam's Diary (forteljing)
1905: King Leopold's Soliloquy (satire)
1905: The War Prayer (forteljing)
1906: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (forteljing)
1906: What Is Man? (artikkel)
1906: Eve's Diary (forteljing)
1907: Christian Science (sakprosa)
1907: A Horse's Tale (forteljing)
1907: Is Shakespeare Dead? (sakprosa)
1909: Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (forteljing)
1909: Letters from the Earth (forteljing, utgjeve posthumt)