Tom Quirk argues in "Huckleberry Finn's Heirs" in _Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn_ for Ring Lardener, Willa Cather, and Langston Hughes. He notes such books as _To Kill a Mockingbird_ and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ (110). "George Bernard Shaw admitted that Mark Twain paved the way for his caustic wit" (113). thanks, larry marshburne