'''Thomas "Tom" Sawyer''' is the title character of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective.

Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters.

The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer whom Twain was acquainted with in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at the San Francisco Call. Twain used to listen to Sawyer tell stories of his youth, "Sam, he would listen to these pranks of mine with great interest and he'd occasionally take 'em down in his notebook. One day he says to me: ‘I am going to put you between the covers of a book some of these days, Tom.’ ‘Go ahead, Sam,’ I said, ‘but don’t disgrace my name.’"] Twain himself said the character sprang from three people, later identified as: John B. Briggs (who died in 1907), William Bowen (who died in 1893) and Twain; however Twain later changed his story saying Sawyer was fully formed solely from his imagination, but as Robert Graysmith says, "The great appropriator liked to pretend his characters sprang fully grown from his fertile mind."

Tom Sawyer's best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom's infatuation with classmate Rebecca "Becky" Thatcher is apparent. He lives with his half brother, Sid, his cousin Mary, and his stern Aunt Polly in the (fictional) town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. There is no mention of Tom's father. In addition, Tom has another aunt, Sally Phelps, who lives considerably farther down the Mississippi River, in the town of Pikesville. Tom is the son of Aunt Polly's dead sister.

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom is only a minor character and is used as a foil for Huck, particularly in the later chapters of the novel after Huck makes his way to the Uncle Phelps plantation. Tom's immaturity, imagination, and obsession with stories put Huck's planned rescue of the runaway slave Jim in great jeopardy — and ultimately make it totally unnecessary, since he knows that Jim's owner has died and freed him in her will. Throughout the novel, Huck's intellectual and emotional development is a central theme, and by re-introducing a character from the beginning (Tom), Mark Twain is able to highlight this evolution in Huck's character.

All published appearances of  Tom Sawyer from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

*Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
*Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
*Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
*Huck and Tom Among the Indians
*Schoolhouse Hill
*Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy

*Tom Sawyer (1917)
*Huck and Tom (1918)
*Huckleberry Finn (1920)
*Tom Sawyer (1930)

* Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (newspaper strip), by Clare Victor Dwiggins (1918–1930)
* Famous Stories #2
* Dell Junior Treasury #10

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer Wikipedia]
*[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0028051/?ref_=tt_cl_t1 IMDB]
*[http://www.comicvine.com/tom-sawyer/4005-57775/ ComicVine]
*[http://tomsawyer.edicypages.com/characters/boys/tom-sawyer Bio]
*[http://lxg.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Sawyer League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Wiki]
*[https://fictional-characters-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Sawyer Fictional Characters in Media Wiki]
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