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Mark Twain
Mark Twain's works are some of the best I've ever read. I love the way he
brings you into the story, especially with the dialogue used, like in Tom
Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain is my favorite dead author.
Mark Twain was never "Mark Twain" at all. That was only his pen name. His
real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samuel was born in Florida, Missouri in
1835. He accomplishe ....
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.... and gold mining had failed, he continued to write for
newspapers. It was in 1863 when Samuel Clemens adopted the name "Mark Twain", a
riverman's term for "two fathoms" deep.
In 1884 Twain went to San Francisco and reached national fame with his
story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." He then took a trip
to Hawaii which started him on a very successful career as a public speaker.
His trips to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land were recorded in letters ....
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