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Who wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?

  1. Herman Melville

  2. Walt Whitman

  3. Mark Twain

  4. Ernest Hemingway

The correct answer is: Mark Twain

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was written by Mark Twain. While the other options are all renowned American authors, none of them wrote this particular novel. Herman Melville is famous for writing Moby-Dick, Walt Whitman for Leaves of Grass, and Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man and the Sea. Only Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."