, of which the best known are The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1899) and The War Prayer (1905); political, social and philosophical essays; The Mysterious Stranger manuscript , an uncompleted piece that was posthumously published in 1916; and autobiographical dictations. Twains work was inspired by the wild West. The popularity of his work marked the beginning of a great American writer and the end of the domination by New England writers of American literature. Twain was know as a humorist by writers of his time and recognized by generation of writers, as a creator of true American literature. He wrote about American subjects in a humorous and casual, yet poetic language. His success in creating a plain evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with these cultures. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemiingway and William Faulkner, both who pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing. In Twains later years he wrote less, but he become a celebrity, frequently speaking out on public issues; he come to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances. Twain received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1907. When he died he left an uncompleted autobiography, which was eventually edited by his secretary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and was published in 1924.Puddinhead Wilson is said to be Twains most sophisticated book(129), though it is not as humorous as most of his earlier books Twain shows a clear since of direction and purpose as he confronts the slave holding south head on. Susan Gillman notes that "Twain's novel implicitly reminds readers that racial codes regulating miscegenation and classifying mixed-race offspring did not disappear after Emancipa...
