# Mark Twain (@mark-twain)

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, journalist, and lecturer. Drawing on printing, travel, and Mississippi River experience, he developed a vernacular style that joined comedy with criticism of social pretense and injustice.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Mark Twain's public record._

## Topics

- [Writing the Mississippi](/@mark-twain/mississippi-writing.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Public Author](/@mark-twain/public-author.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Vernacular and Satire](/@mark-twain/vernacular-and-satire.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.marktwainproject.org/about_mark_twainproject.shtml
- blog: https://marktwainhouse.org/about/mark-twain/biography/
- blog: https://www.loc.gov/collections/mark-twain-papers/about-this-collection/
- blog: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/mark-twain-papers

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "mark-twain", "question": "…"}`.