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Mark Twain
... Samuel Langhorn Clemens on November 30,1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth son of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. "He had been a sickly child- he said he lived mainly on allopathic medicine during the first seven years of his life ...
A biography on the life and influence of mark twain
... Samuel Langhorn Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is one of the most famous American writers of all time. After the early death of Twain's father, the young Twain found work as a printer for his brother's newspaper [Kaplan 24]. It was here that the ...
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
... of years. It is possible that this was due to the visit to the Mississippi that he had made earlier in the year. No matter the reason, Twain felt rejuvenated and again turned to the writing of Huckleberry Finn. By the summer of ...
Mark Twain.
... steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river which inspired much of his book "life on the Mississippi river"? Once the civil war broke out, he lost his job and volunteered for the Calvary in the ...
The Life and Biography of Mark Twain.
... the next several years, Twain published several of his more famous works, such as "The Prince and the Pauper", "Life on the Mississippi", and "Huckleberry Finn". In the 1890s Twain lost a big portion of his financial wealth due to poor financial decisions and the ...