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Mark Twain

American Literature

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.

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Birth Year
1835 1
Death Year
1910 1
Award
honorary doctor of Yale University. 1
Award
member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame. 1
Award
member of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 1998. 1
Gender
Male 1
Form Mostly Written
Essay 1
Classification
Original Language
German 1
Original Language
English 1
Mark Twain
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Source Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Wikipedia)
Source The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Wikipedia)
Source The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Wikipedia)
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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.
  • Article categories: Category:20th-century American male novelists
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    was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
  • Original language statement
    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 (Wikipedia)
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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.
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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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Wikipedia (Spanish): Michael Crichton
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Arthur Conan Doyle, creador de Sherlock Holmes, el cual precisamente, junto a Mark Twain o Alfred Hitchcock según decía, eran las mayores influencias en su carrera
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Tom Sawyer, Detective (Wikipedia)
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Author: Mark Twain
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Wikipedia)
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Author: Mark Twain
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