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SAMUEL CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) (1835-1910)

Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up in the Mississippi River frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri. Ernest Hemingway's famous statement that all of American literature comes from one great book, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, indicates this author's tower­ing place in the tradition. Twain was the first major author to come from the interior of the country, and he captured its distinctive, humorous slang and iconoclasm.

Twain's masterpiece, which ap­peared in 1884, is set in the Mis­sissippi River village of St. Peters­burg.

Huckleberry Finn has inspired countless liter­ary interpretations.

Samuel Clemens's pen name, "Mark Twain," is the phrase Mississippi boatmen used to signify two fathoms (3.6 meters) of water, the depth needed for a boat's safe passage. Twain's serious purpose, combined with a rare genius for humor and style, keep his writing fresh and appealing.

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

The 1925 work An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, like London's Martin Eden, explores the dangers of the American dream. Its precise details build up an overwhelming sense of tragic inevitability. The novel is a scathing portrait of the American success myth gone sour, but it is also a uni­versal story about the stresses of urbanization, modernization, and alienation.

An American Tragedy is a reflection of the dissatisfaction, envy, and despair that afflicted many poor working people in America's competitive, success-driven society.

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