Mark Twain
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was also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, on November 30, 1835, he died April 21, 1910, he achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such write ....
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.... with his brother's newspapers under various false names. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1861, Twain traveled by stagecoach to Carson City, Nev., with his brother Orion, who had been appointed territorial secretary. ....
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