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    Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3]

  2. 1601 (Mark Twain) [Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. [1]

    • Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Erica Jong, Leslie A. Fiedler
    • English
    • 1880
    • Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
  3. New York, December 4, 1900. Printed invitation and large seating chart for this major dinner held in Twain's honor, one of hundreds that Twain endured. Twain delivered a speech. This invitation was sent to Twain's nephew, Samuel Moffett, who had written a biographical sketch of his uncle in 1899.

  4. Dec 1, 2019 · The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835–1871. By. pp. $36.95.) In the preface to The Life of Mark Twain Gary Scharnhorst offers several reasons why a multivolume biography of Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain—this volume is the first of three—is necessary at this stage in American letters. For Scharnhorst, recent biographers treat ...

    • Andrew Levy
    • 2019
  5. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Twain's work, including religion, commerce, race, gender, social class, and imperialism.

  6. Samuel Langhorne Clemens [1] (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), more widely known as Mark Twain, was an American writer. He was born in Florida, Missouri. He worked mainly for newspapers and as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before he became a writer. He married in 1870, and raised his family in Hartford, Connecticut.

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