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Who wrote the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

  1. Ernest Hemingway

  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  4. Mark Twain

The correct answer is: Mark Twain

The other options are incorrect because A: Ernest Hemingway was an American journalist and novelist who wrote The Old Man and the Sea and won a Nobel Prize in Literature. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. B: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote The Scarlet Letter. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. C: F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote The Great Gatsby. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.