All Modern Literature comes from Huckleberry Finn

Woodcut of Mark Twain.

Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Yet less than a year after it was published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was banned by several American libraries for obscene language and moral degeneracy. In Concord, Massachussetts, the librarian said the book “is not suitable for trash.” Twain responded, “This will sell us sell us…