‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’ by Mark Twain: Short Story Analysis ‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’ is a humorous piece in Edwardian style penned in 1906 by the father of American literature Mark Twain. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and he was a prolific American writer of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth century. He wrote many humorous … [Read more...] about ‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’ by Mark Twain: Short Story Analysis