Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the “Great American Novel”. Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

His writings made him very popular and even though he went bankrupt for investing in Paige compositor, he was still able to get up,  he was born after an appearance of Halley’s Comet, and he thought he would go out with it as well, though he died about a month before the comet passed near Earth in 1910.