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• Mark Twain was an American author, humorist and essayist.

• Fast Facts

  1. Real Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  2. Born: November 30, 1835
  3. Birthplace: Florida, Missouri
  4. Died: April 21, 1910
  5. Literary Genre: Satire, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Essays, Fantasy
  6. Color blind

• Career

  As a young man, Samuel Clemens educated himself in public libraries and worked as a printer and typesetter. He contributed articles to The Hannibal Journal at the age of fifteen. A wandering factotum, Clemens worked as a steamboat pilot, silver miner, journalist and, as accounts of his experiences became known to newspapers, a paid lecturer.

  There is no complete accounting of Samuel Clemens work, since much of it was written for newspapers and other transient media. His earliest notable short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in The New York Saturday Press in 1865. More than a hundred novels, short stories, essays and commentaries survive, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Roughing It and other acknowledged classics of American Literature.

• Notable Works

  • 1872: Roughing It
  • 1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • 1882: The Prince and the Pauper
  • 1885: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • 1906: Eve's Diary
  • 1916: The Mysterious Stranger

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