Shohola Falls

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Title Shohola Falls
cover to the first edition
Cover to the first edition
Author Michael Pearson
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Released September 2003
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 224 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-8156-0785-7 (hardback edition)

Shohola Falls is a 2003 novel written by Michael Pearson. The novel elaborates on the true story of Thomas Blankenship, the young man that Mark Twain reputedly based the character of Huck Finn upon in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Shohola Falls, Mark Twain is set as an important character, the fictional reality aligned to the historical one.