Mark Twain (D.T.) Mark Twain, real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri) April 21, 1910, Redding (Connecticut); buried in Elmire (New York) American writer, journalist and public figure . His work covers many genres - humor, satire, philosophical fiction, journalism, etc. , and in all these genres he invariably takes the position of a humanist and a democrat. William Faulkner wrote that Mark Twain was "the first truly American writer, and we have all been his heirs ever since," and Ernest Hemingway wrote that all modern American literature came from one book by Mark Twain, called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Of the Russian writers about Mark Twain, Maxim Gorky and Alexander Kuprin spoke especially warmly.