Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn And, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut, in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made a fortune from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental-and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called "the Lincoln of our literature." Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, is Chair of the Department of American Studies and Professor of American Studies and English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author, most recently, of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, and also of the award-winning books Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices and From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. She edited the twenty-nine volume Oxford Mark Twain and has served as President of the Mark Twain Circle of America.Twain, Mark is the author of 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn And, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', published 2002 under ISBN 9780451528643 and ISBN 0451528646.