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- Real Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Born: November 30, 1835
- Birthplace: Florida, Missouri
- Died: April 21, 1910
- Literary Genre: Satire, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Essays, Fantasy
- Color blind
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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.
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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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Mark Twain Questions
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Mark Twain Quotations
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Mark Twain Timeline
- November 30, 1835: Born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri
- March, 1847: Father John Marshall Clemens dies of pneumonia
- 1851: Starts work as a typesetter and writer for Hannibal Journal
- 1859: Receives steamboat pilot's license
- 1865: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County published in New York Saturday Press
- 1870: Marries Olivia Langdon
- 1876: Publishes most famous work, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1881: The Prince and the Pauper
- 1884: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- April 21, 1910: Dies in Connecticut from angina pectoris
Notable Mark Twain Film Adaptations
- Note: The following links lead to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1907: Tom Sawyer
- 1937: The Prince and the Pauper
- 1939: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1949: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- 1960: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1973: Tom Sawyer musical
- 1985: The Adventures of Mark Twain
- 1993: The Adventures of Huck Finn
- 1995: Tom and Huck
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure. - Mark Twain
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**I court exertion. I love work. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer and humorist
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. *Mark Twain
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