马克·吐温(Mark Twain)，美国著名作家和演说家，美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人，被誉为“美国文学史上的林肯”。
Mark Twain(pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)，was an American writer，journalist and humorist，who won a worldwide audience for his stories of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Clemens was born on November 30,1835 in Florida，Missouri，of a Virginian family.He was brought up in Hannibal，Missouri.After his father's death in 1847，he was apprenticed to a printer and wrote for his brother's newspaper.He later worked as a licensed Mississippi riverboat pilot.The Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic and Clemens moved to Virginia City，where he edited the Territorial Enterprise.On February 3,1863，“Mark Twain”was born when Clemens signed a humorous travel account with that pseudonym.
