Mark Twain was a writer, adventurer, lecturer, entrepreneur, inventor and wily social critic, whose real name was Samuel Clemens. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and friendships with presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. His best-known classic novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Unravel his full story here.