Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist praised as the greatest humorist the United States has produced, with William Faulkner calling him the father of American literature. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), often called the Great American Novel, as well as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, he worked as a printer, a Mississippi riverboat pilot and a journalist before achieving fame with the 1865 story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; he died in 1910, the day after Halley's Comet, which had also appeared at his birth, made its closest approach to the sun. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Awardhonorary doctor of Yale University. 1 Awardmember of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame. 1 Awardmember of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 1998. 1 Classification
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist praised as the greatest humorist the United States has produced, with William Faulkner calling him the father of American literature.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835, April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".
Award: honorary doctor of Yale University
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835, April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".
Award: member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835, April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".
Award: member of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835, April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Wikipedia)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...is a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876.
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