Mark Twain is a very famous American writer. He is also a lecturer and humorist. He is famous for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. These books are still considered classics and are very popular among readers.
Mark Twain's original name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is his pen name, and it's an old riverboat term which means “the water is two fathoms deep”. But this is not his only pen name. He used to write a lot of comic (喜剧的) articles with the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass before he started writing with Mark Twain as his pen name.
While he was a teenager, Mark Twain worked as an amateur (业余的) printer. He had a lot of fondness for cats. He loved to have them around wherever he went.
At one time, he worked as a steamboat pilot. He also worked as a miner and a journalist. He was well appreciated as a lecturer.
He wrote the books with characters which seem very natural to readers. The characters seem so real that we think we might have met these characters somewhere.
Task: Answer the following questions.
1．What's Mark Twain's original name?
His_original_name_is_Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens.
2．Please name some works of Mark Twain.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; The Prince and the Pauper.
