Mark TwainbrBorn Samuel Langhorne Clemens.br1835 1910brA famous American writer entrepreneur publisher and lecturer. brbrAmong Twains best-known novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court The Prince and the Pauper and others.brbrA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court 1889 tells the story of a Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician. Twain was inspired to write this book by a dream in which he was a knight himself severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.