马克·吐温(1835—1910)是美国优秀的现实主义作家,十九世纪后期至二十世纪初期美国文学中的一位杰出的代表。马克·吐温的真实姓名是塞缪尔·兰格洪·克莱门斯。1835年11月30日生于一个并不富裕的地方法官家庭,童年是在密西西比河畔他叔叔的农场度过的。这段生活使他对美国农民尤其是黑人有了了解,对他后来的文学创作有着深刻的影响。父亲死后,十二岁的马克·吐 Mark Twain (1835-1910) is an outstanding American realist writer, an outstanding representative of American literature from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Mark Twain’s real name is Samuel Lange Hung Clemens. Born on November 30, 1835 in a family of magistrates who were not rich, his childhood was spent on his uncle’s farm on the Mississippi River. This life made him understand the American peasants, especially the blacks, and had a profound influence on his later literary creation. After his father died, twelve-year-old Mark Spittles