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 whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say. Twain's story about his pen name has been questioned by some with the suggestion that "mark twain" refers to a running bar tab that Twain would regularly incur while drinking at John Piper's saloon in Virginia City, Nevada. Samuel Clemens himself responded to this suggestion by saying, "Mark Twain was the nom de plume of one Captain Isaiah Sellers, who used to write river news over it for the New Orleans Picayune.