True Williams was the first to illustrate the title character, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer of a Mark Twain novel in 1928.
 He drew all illustrations to the first edition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and was thus the first to illustrate such characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. 
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876). 
