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On this day in 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famousâand famously controversialânovel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a ramshackle house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.