Mark twain
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens was an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America's best and most beloved writers.
Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to pen several novels, including two major classics of American literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
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"Mark Twain." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Oct 17 2013, 02:40 http://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564.
http://youtu.be/_oJzY1diVHY
Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to pen several novels, including two major classics of American literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
MLA Style
"Mark Twain." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Oct 17 2013, 02:40 http://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564.
http://youtu.be/_oJzY1diVHY
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WRITING EXCERPTS
- Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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SIGNIFICANCE IN LITERATURE
- "Father of American Literature- the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs."
- "Mark Twain remains as central as ever not only in American literature but in American life."
- The best kind of humor is pretty serious, and his jokes go to the roots of human nature.
- It's humor that doesn't depend on its own time. It's universal.
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