Life on the Mississippi
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
American Authors, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Juvenile literature, River boats
Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) 

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain