Mark Twain
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'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. is my favorite dead author.
was never "" at all. That was only his pen name. His
real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samu ....
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.... to 1857, Twain worked in many cities as a printer, and wrote
articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit
to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until
the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and
it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi."
In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion.
After attempts for silver and gold mining had failed, he continued to w ....
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