"which is inspired by the book. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huck. One such adventure, Tom's whitewashing of a fence, has been adapted into paintings and referenced in other pieces of popular culture. Originally a commercial failure the book ended up being the"
"Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and its sequel, the ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), the latter often called ""The Great American Novel"". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""Huckleberry Finn"". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on"
"Tommy Kelly (actor) Thomas Francis Kelly (April 6, 1925 – January 26, 2016) professionally known as Tommy Kelly was an American child actor. He is remembered for his title role in ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" in 1938 based on Mark Twain's novel of the same name. Kelly was born in the Bronx, the son of Nora and Michael Kelly, a fireman, in humble circumstances. He had twelve siblings. Kelly's grandparents, all four, were from Ireland. He began his acting career at the age of twelve when he was selected to play Tom Sawyer in the 1938 movie ""The Adventures"
"Tom Whedon Thomas Avery ""Tom"" Whedon (August 3, 1932 – March 23, 2016) was an American television screenwriter. Whedon was born in New York City, New York. He was the son of Louise Carroll (Angell) and 1950s TV screenwriter John Whedon. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1955. He and his first wife, political activist Ann Lee (née Jeffries) Stearns, are the parents of sons Samuel (b. 1960) and Matthew Thomas (b. 1962), and film and TV screenwriter Joss Whedon (""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""Angel"", ""Firefly"", ""Dollhouse"", and ""Marvel's The Avengers""). Tom and his second wife, Pam Webber, are"
"Clement Wood Clement Richardson Wood (September 1, 1888 – October 26, 1950) was an American writer, lawyer and political activist. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1909 and received his law degree from Yale in 1911. Wood mainly wrote poetry. He also wrote ""Tom Sawyer Grows Up"", a sequel to Mark Twain's work. He appeared frequently in pulp magazines, in titles as diverse as ""Telling Tales"", ""Gangster Stories"", ""Flynn's"", and ""Ace-High Magazine"". His story, ""The Coffin,"" was included in ""The Best Short Stories of 1922"". In 1929, he wrote the biography, ""Bernarr Macfadden: A Study in Success"", in"
"Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Clancy's literary career began in 1984 when he sold ""The Hunt"
"Detective"", ""The Maltese Cross"", ""The Oyster Pirates"", ""The Tiger's Head Mystery"", and ""The Black Riders of Santo, or, The Terror of Wood River"". In addition to his voluminous output of fiction, Sawyer produced at least two nonfiction works, the ""History of Santa Clara County, California"" (Historic Record Co., 1922) and ""The Life of Tiburcio Vasquez"", about a famous local outlaw. He was also a playwright and actor in a San Jose amateur dramatic club. He died in 1924. Eugene T. Sawyer Eugene Taylor Sawyer (November 11, 1846 – October 30, 1924) was a newspaper editor and author of dime novels,"
"the 1870s with the works of Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast—in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884). Twain's style changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Henry James (1843–1916) was a major American novelist of the late"
"Mississippi and corresponded with a boyhood friend, Will Bowen, that had evoked many memories and was used as a source of material. Twain named his fictional character after a San Francisco fireman whom he met in June 1863. The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing 90 passengers after a shipwreck. The two remained friendly during Twain's three-year stay in San Francisco, often drinking and gambling together. In November 1875 Twain gave the manuscript to Elisha Bliss of the American Publishing Company, who sent it to True Williams for the illustrations. A little later, Twain had the"
"Joshua Park Joshua Park (November 26, 1976 – August 30, 2015) was an American theater and screen actor, known for his Broadway debut as the title character of Tom Sawyer in the 2001 musical comedy, ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"". He died following a brief illness with pancreatic cancer on August 30, 2015, at the age of 38. He was survived by his mother, Beverly Miller, a sister, and other relatives and friends in his native Marshville, North Carolina. Park was born in Union County, North Carolina, in 1976. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the"
"established the genre of realistic family books in the United States. Mark Twain released ""Tom Sawyer"" in 1876, and in 1880 another bestseller, """", a collection of African American folk tales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, appeared. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a plethora of children's novels began featuring realistic, non-magical plotlines. Certain titles received international success such as Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Treasure Island"" (1883), L.M. Montgomery's ""Anne of Green Gables"" (1908), and Louisa May Alcott's ""Little Women"" (1869) The Chinese Revolution of 1911 and World War II brought political and social change that revolutionized"
"the ""R. Tom Sawyer Award"" to honor him for advancing gas turbine technology in all of its aspects for over 40 years. The award in his name is the highest award given by the IGTI, and is awarded annually at their international ""Turbo Expo."" Sawyer was born on June 20, 1901 in Schenectady, New York, but lived most of his life in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey (Ridgewood, Bergen County). He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University in 1923 followed by a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1930. His undergraduate thesis was entitled ""Preliminary Design of"
"in which Williams was sole or contributing artist include: True Williams Truman W. ""True"" Williams (March 22, 1839 – November 23, 1897) was an American artist known as the most prolific illustrator to Mark Twain's books and novels. He illustrated the first edition of ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and was thus the first to visually portray such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He was also sole illustrator of Twain's ""Sketches, New and Old"" and primary illustrator of ""Roughing It"" and ""The Innocents Abroad"". Working with a number of publishers he also illustrated works by writers Bill"
"True Williams Truman W. ""True"" Williams (March 22, 1839 – November 23, 1897) was an American artist known as the most prolific illustrator to Mark Twain's books and novels. He illustrated the first edition of ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876) and was thus the first to visually portray such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He was also sole illustrator of Twain's ""Sketches, New and Old"" and primary illustrator of ""Roughing It"" and ""The Innocents Abroad"". Working with a number of publishers he also illustrated works by writers Bill Nye, George W. Peck, Joaquin Miller, and others. He"
"""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"". Events from Twain's classic are revisited from the viewpoint of Tom's half-brother Sid, who in Hiller's version is the village genius while Tom is just a fun-loving bully. Ironically, twelve years before Hiller released the novel, minister and television personality Stuart Briscoe wrote the following in his essay ""Why Invite Trouble"": ""It is impossible to imagine a book called ""The Adventures of Sid Sawyer"". Who would want to read about a good kid who never got into trouble, never rocked a boat, never finagled his way out of a fix?"" As of 2017, Hiller is"
"R. Tom Sawyer Robert Thomas Sawyer, known as R. Tom Sawyer, (June 20, 1901 - January 19, 1986) was the inventor of the first successful Gas Turbine Locomotive. He also assisted in development of the diesel locomotive while he worked for General Electric, which led him to be known as the ""Father of the Diesel Locomotive"". Sawyer was the founder of what is now the modern-day ""International Gas Turbine Institute"" (IGTI), and among industry professionals was known as ""Mr. Gas Turbine"". Sawyer authored books about Gas Turbines, Locomotives, and Atomic Power., and was awarded three U.S. Patents. The ASME established"
"Eugene T. Sawyer Eugene Taylor Sawyer (November 11, 1846 – October 30, 1924) was a newspaper editor and author of dime novels, particularly for the ""Nick Carter"" series. In an interview conducted in 1902, he professed to having written over 75 examples of that genre, most anonymously. The ""New York Times"" referred to him as ""The Prince of Dime Novelists"", and the ""Washington Post"" as the ""King of Dime Novelists"", though others were more prolific. Still, Sawyer claimed to have written three 50,000-word novels in the space of one month and, on another occasion, finished a 60,000-word novel in just"
"Tom Cain (author) David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver. For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as ""The Daily Mail"" and ""The Mail on Sunday"". He was mocked in ""Private Eye"" for his frequent contribution to these newspapers, being satirised as ""Daily Thomas of the David Mail"". In"
"Henry Fielding Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel ""Tom Jones"". Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. His younger sister, Sarah, also became a successful writer. Fielding was born at Sharpham, Somerset, and educated at Eton College, where he established a lifelong friendship with"
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry ""Huck"" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"") and a friend of Tom"
"David S. Goyer David Samuel Goyer (born December 22, 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, producer, and comic book writer. His screenwriting works includes the ""Blade"" trilogy, Christopher Nolan's ""The Dark Knight"" trilogy, ""Dark City"", ""Man of Steel"", and its sequel """", and he directed four feature films: ""Zig Zag"", """", ""The Invisible"", and ""The Unborn"". Goyer was also co-writer of the video games """" and """". He won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for ""Batman Begins"" and received another nomination for ""Dark City"", and has been nominated for four Hugo Awards. Goyer and his brother Jeff"
"writers of the late 19th century, realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions. Twain is best known for his works ""Tom Sawyer"" and ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Sam. R. Watkins (1839–1901) was a 19th-century American writer and humorist best known for his memoir, """"Co. Aytch,"""" which recounts his life as a soldier in the Confederate States Army. He ""talked in a slow humorous drawl"" and demonstrated unusual prowess as a storyteller. One of the book's commendable qualities is its realism. In an age noted for romanticizing ""the war"""
"Joss Whedon Joseph Hill Whedon (; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series, including ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" (1997–2003), ""Angel"" (1999–2004), ""Firefly"" (2002), ""Dollhouse"" (2009–10), and ""Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."" (2013–present). Whedon co-wrote the Pixar animated film ""Toy Story"" (1995), wrote and directed the ""Firefly"" film continuation ""Serenity"" (2005), co-wrote and directed the Internet miniseries ""Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"" (2008), and co-wrote and produced the horror comedy film ""The"
"K. W. Jeter Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950), known both personally and professionally as K. W. Jeter, is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the ""Star Trek"" and ""Star Wars"" universes, and has written three sequels to ""Blade Runner"". Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton where he became friends with James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K. Dick. Jeter was actually the inspiration for ""Kevin"" in Dick's semi-autobiographical novel, ""Valis"". Many of Jeter's"
"but finishes rich and successful. Tom appears as a mixture of these little boys since he is at the same time a scamp and a boy endowed with a certain generosity. By the time he wrote ""Tom Sawyer"", Twain was already a successful author based on the popularity of ""The Innocents Abroad."" He owned a large house in Hartford, Connecticut but needed another success to support himself, with a wife and two daughters. He had collaborated on a novel with Charles Dudley Warner, """" published in 1874. He had earlier written an unpublished memoir of his own life on the"
"5, 1875), Mark Twain tells of just completing the manuscript for ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (written in third person) and deciding against taking Tom into adulthood: to do so, he says, ""would be fatal... in any shape but autobiographically – like Gil Blas"". Walter Blair (""Mark Twain and Huck Finn"") thus concludes that Twain's new novel, ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", which, picaresque-like, ""would run its protagonist 'through life', had to be written in the first person; ""Gil Blas"" was the model"". In his plan for the novel ""The Life of a Great Sinner"", Dostoyevsky notes that the concision"
"Raymond Harold Sawkins Raymond Harold Sawkins (14 July 1923 – 23 August 2006) was a British novelist, who mainly published under the pseudonym Colin Forbes, but also as Richard Raine, Jay Bernard and Harold English. He published only three of his first books under his own name. Sawkins wrote over 40 books, mostly as Colin Forbes. He was most famous for his long-running series of thriller novels in which the principal character is Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service. Born in Hampstead, London, Sawkins attended The Lower School of John Lyon in Harrow, London. At the age of"
"Tom Sawyer Entertainment Tom Sawyer Entertainment is a film production and management company founded by Rachel Miller and Jesse Hara. It was formed in 2006 and produced ""happythankyoumoreplease"", the US Audience Award winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Tom Sawyer Entertainment most recently sold their client Jason Ubaldi’s feature script ""Dream On"" to Mandate Pictures and has expanded its client base to include animation, comic book talents, publishing and digital media. Their clients include 2009 Emmy Award winner and comedian Ben Schwartz along with writers and directors from shows such as ""The Daily Show"", ""The Simpsons"", and ""The Jay"
"Tom Maddox Tom Maddox (born October 1945) is an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement. His first novel was ""Halo"" (), published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story ""Snake Eyes"" appeared in the 1986 collection ""Mirrorshades"", edited by Bruce Sterling. He is perhaps best known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson. They wrote two episodes of ""The X-Files"" together, ""Kill Switch"" and ""First Person Shooter"". Maddox is the originator of the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (or ICE). According to Maddox, he coined the term in the manuscript of an"
"Charles Felton Pidgin Charles Felton Pidgin (November 11, 1844 - June 3, 1923) was an American author, statistician, and inventor. He is best known for his 1900 novel ""Quincy Adams Sawyer"", which became successful largely due to a big marketing campaign, and was adapted for the stage and silent film. He was born on November 11, 1844 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Mary E. Felton and Benjamin Gordon Pidgin. As a young child, Pidgin was rendered lame by an accident to his hip, and he was also partially blind for a number of years. He graduated from The English High School"
"his epic poem about his New Jersey hometown, ""Paterson"", Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Langston Hughes, in addition to many others. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir ""Life on the Mississippi"" and the novels ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous"
"described as racist because black people are called ""niggers"" in the text. A cleansed version, which no longer contained the word, aroused indignation among some literary critics. Tom Sawyer, the story's title character, also appears in two other uncompleted sequels: ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". He is also a character in Twain's unfinished ""Schoolhouse Hill"". """" premiered on October 14, 2011, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. The score was by composer Maury Yeston, with choreography by William Whitener, artistic director of the Kansas City Ballet. A review in"
"highest award given by the IGTI. R. Tom Sawyer Robert Thomas Sawyer, known as R. Tom Sawyer, (June 20, 1901 - January 19, 1986) was the inventor of the first successful Gas Turbine Locomotive. He also assisted in development of the diesel locomotive while he worked for General Electric, which led him to be known as the ""Father of the Diesel Locomotive"". Sawyer was the founder of what is now the modern-day ""International Gas Turbine Institute"" (IGTI), and among industry professionals was known as ""Mr. Gas Turbine"". Sawyer authored books about Gas Turbines, Locomotives, and Atomic Power., and was awarded"