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1. www.britannica.com › biography › Mark-TwainMark Twain | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   Apr 17, 2024 · Mark Twain was an American humorist, novelist, and travel writer. Today he is best remembered as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain is widely considered one of the greatest American writers of all time.

2. www.history.com › topics › art-historyMark Twain - Quotes, Name & Book | HISTORY

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   Apr 5, 2010 · The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

3. marktwainhouse.org › about › mark-twainBiography - Mark Twain House

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   Mark Twain. A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World: Samuel L. Clemens‚ 1835-1910. As Twain’s books provide insight into the past‚ the events of his personal life further demonstrate his role as an eyewitness to history.

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   Sep 23, 2018 · Updated on September 23, 2018. Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens Nov. 30, 1835 in the small town of Florida, MO, and raised in Hannibal, became one of the greatest American authors of all time.

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6. www.britannica.com › summary › Mark-TwainLife and works of Mark Twain | Britannica

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   Mark Twain. Mark Twain, orig. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn.), U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River and was apprenticed in 1848 to a local printer.

7. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentMark Twain - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Feb 7, 2022 · W. D. Howells described Mark Twain as “the Lincoln of our literature,” and Hemingway claimed that “all modern American literature” came from Huckleberry Finn. Twain wrote plays, novels, short fiction, and a sprawling, experimental autobiography; he was an essayist, journalist, performer, public intellectual, and raconteur.

8. english.stanford.edu › publications › historical-guide-mark-twainHistorical Guide to Mark Twain | Department of English

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   Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America's great writers.