Let me suggest one more of Huck's progeny for Peter Messent's list: the narrator of Padgett Powell's EDISTO. I don't know enough about Powell to say that there's any direct and/or acknowledged Twain influence, but it's difficult to imagine Powell creating his first person narrator, with a low country dialect, without having at least thought of Huck. That Powell's narrator is the son of an English professing-mom makes the case all the more interesting. Steve Jobe Hanover College