Mark Twain: The Wit Who Invented America

Mark Twain was not merely a writer; he was a voice so distinct, so irreverent, that it seemed to belong to America itself. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 on the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain became the first truly national humorist, a man who captured the cadences of ordinary speech, the hypocrisies ofContinue reading “Mark Twain: The Wit Who Invented America”