Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on
Father Callahan story to the orderly, Callahan is suffocated with a pillow by Mark Petrie in the hospital. The framing story of Callahan now living in a big city, working in a homeless shelter and his being pushed out of an upper storey window are clearly inspired by the events in the "Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla" novel, though the miniseries does not use any of the further material featuring Callahan from the other "Dark Tower" books, which feature his return and redemption. Father Callahan Father Donald Frank Callahan is a fictional character created by Stephen King. He originally appeared in