Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
America's icon isn't who you thought he was.
Fun fact: Mark Twain wasn't really Mark Twain. That's just the penance of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the literary knockout who helped define the American landscape after the Civil War. Turns out, though, that Twain and Clemens didn't always get along. Read how both men developed, and what happened behind the famously penned prose.