Samuel Clemens had contributed greatly to the Gilded Age. The book, The Gilded Age, he wrote included many things about the social classes. It also demonstrated what America was actually like. He changed the view of Americans by explaining that racial equality hasn't progressed and the values of each American has changed to wealth. Samuel Clemens wrote his biased opinion about the Gilded Age in this novel. Samuel Clemens was also known as Mark Twain. The stage name came from something a crewman had shouted when testing the depth of the water. Mark Twain means “ two fathoms deep”, a measurement of the depth of the water. He discovered this name when working on a steamboat on the Mississippi until traffic going north and south from the