Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as, Mark Twain (MT), was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)..
MT was very popular, and his keen wit and sharp satire earned praise from critics as well as peers. Upon his death, precisely hundred years ago, he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called MT "the father of American literature".
An article (may follow the link as under)written by Nathaniel Rich; fiction editor at The Paris Review narrates intimately as to what made MT to be famous.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-20/what-made-twain-famous/p
