Mark Twain rest is just cheating. Hemingway also wrote in the same essay: All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn". Near the completion of "Huckleberry Finn", Twain wrote "Life on the Mississippi", which is said to have heavily influenced the novel. The travel work recounts Twain's memories and new experiences after a 22-year absence from the Mississippi River. In it, he also explains that "Mark Twain" was the call made when the boat was in safe water, indicating a depth of two fathoms (). Twain produced President Ulysses S. Grant's "Memoirs" through his fledgling publishing
Mark Twain in Nevada was "A work, apparently, of Twain's comic imagination". Historians Forrest Glen Robinson and Leland Krauth also view these accounts as highly fictionalized reconstructions, "portraying Clemens as much less the fool and the coward than he was in fact. For example, not once is there mention of his editorial reference to the 'miscegenation society'". Krauth sees it as an example that "illuminate[s] the process whereby Mark Twain characteristically purged through his art that which was painful and humiliating in Sam Clemen's past," by "purging drunkenness, sex, and violence" while he "imposes on the whole of "Roughing It" a posture of propriety".