Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884.Since then,the book has been published in at least sixty languages.Some people say it is the best book ever created by an American writer.American students still read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And parents,teachers and literary experts still debate the issues1 discussed in the book. The writer who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835.He grew up in Hannibal,Missouri on the Mississippi River.After his father died in 1847,young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher.Ten years later,he became a pilot2 on a steamboat that sailed on the Mississippi.Later,he wrote funny stories and called himself Mark Twain.He was famous as a public speaker.However,his later life was not a happy one.Two of his daughters died and his wife died after a long sickness, too.Some critics think Mark Twain’s later works were more serious because of his sadness.He died of heart failure in 1910.