Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 - April 21 1910) known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American writer humorist entrepreneur publisher and lecturer. He was lauded as the greatest humorist the United States has produced and William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) the latter often called The Great American Novel. Twain was raised in Hannibal Missouri which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens.