In reply to Pete Messent's query about Twain's _Huck_ influencing
contemporary writers --
In 1983 Crown Publishers, New York, published _The Further Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn_ by Greg Matthews who was described as an
Australian writer who was then living in Kansas.
However, whether or not the book was a commercial or literary success
in 1983 is open to question.
Barb