- Born in 1835.
- Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
- Master river boat pilot.
- When Twain disliked you, you knew it.
- Ernest Hemingway once said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
- A new edition of Huckleberry Finn expunges its repeated use of 'nigger' for understandable reasons, but betrays a great anti-racist novel in the process
- the controversy stirred up by a "new" edition of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in which the offensive racial epithets "injun" and "nigger" are replaced by "Indian" and "slave" respectively.
- "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
- Mark Twain is one of the most banned authers in the U.S.
- Huckleberry fin is the 4th most banned book in schools today.
