Mark Twain spoke his mind about slavery and race relations “in the mouth and in the mind of an illiterate 11-year-old boy. Jim is one of the greatest human creations in all of literature. And so is Huck. But Huck is more than that. Huck is the source of the modern American writer, of which Hemingway is an example. Huckleberry Finn … inspired the modern American novel. — Herman Wouk