THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN AUTHOR’S SKETCH Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. When Samuel Clemens was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent his childhood. Clemens first approach to literature was through typesetting for a newspaper in 1851. At the time Orion, his brother, was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. From 1857 until 1861, he served as the pilot of a riverboat on the Mississippi …showed first 75 words of 1083 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1083 total…REACTION I enjoyed this novel because of the intense use of colloquial speech and dialect. I would recommend this novel because Clemens’ style gives a realistic view of life on the Mississippi River in the early 1840s and this novel is considered his Masterpiece. Huckleberry Finn is the classic in American literature by which all others are judged. Ernest Hemingway remarked, “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”