# Mark Twain

Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, worked in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States print and performance culture as a printer, river pilot, journalist, lecturer, novelist, and satirist. His writing used vernacular narration, travel, humor, social observation, and unreliable voices to examine race, empire, commerce, technology, childhood, and national self-deception.

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