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    • Mark Twain

    American author and humorist (–)

    For other uses, see Mark Twain (disambiguation).

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    BornSamuel Langhorne Clemens
    ()November 30,
    Florida, Missouri, U.S.
    DiedApril 21, () (aged&#;74)
    Stormfield House, Redding, Connecticut, U.S.
    Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, U.S.
    Pen name
    • Mark Twain
    • Josh
    • Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
    Occupation
    • Writer
    • humorist
    • entrepreneur
    • publisher
    • lecturer
    LanguageAmerican English
    Genres
    Literary movementAmerican Realism
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    Children4, including Susy, Clara, and Jean
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    RelativesOrion Clemens (brother)

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, &#;– April 21, ), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer () and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court () and Pudd'nhead Wilson () and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today () with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

    Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer early in his career, and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to his older brother Orion Clemens' newspaper. Twain then became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, which provided him the material for Life

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    • Autobiography of Mark Twain

    Collection of reminiscences by Mark Twain

    The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a written collection of reminiscences, the majority of which were dictated during the last few years of the life of American author Mark Twain (–) and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never compiled the writings and dictations into a publishable form in his lifetime. Despite indications from Twain that he did not want his autobiography to be published for a century, he serialized selected chapters during his lifetime; in addition, various compilations were published during the 20th century. However, it was not until that the first volume of a comprehensive three-volume collection, compiled and edited by The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, was published.

    Twain's writings and dictations

    Twain started the composition of an autobiography in , but proceeded intermittently, abandoning the work and resuming it sporadically, accumulating a total of of these “false starts” over the subsequent 35 years.

    The majority of the autobiography was dictated rather than written directly—this was described by a reviewer in as "[having] a secretary follow him around and take down his every passing thought". In a letter to William Dean Howells, Twain wrote, "I’ve struck it! And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." These dictations were made frequently in and Over the two subsequent years, Twain appeared to have neglected the book, scarcely adding new material; in , following the death of his youngest daughter, Jean Clemens, he proclaimed the project completed. His experimental conception—to “talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment”—im

  • The eagerly-awaited Volume 2

    • Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: by Albert Bigelow Paine

    Summary "Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: " by Albert Bigelow Paine is a biographical account written during the early 20th century. The book covers the later years of the celebrated author Mark Twain, focusing on his personal and literary pursuits from to Throughout this volume, the narrative captures Twain's evolving interests, such as his engagement with the poetry of Robert Browning, his perspectives on contemporary authors like George Meredith, and his political activism that reflects his outspoken social views. The opening of this biography presents Twain in the midst of rich literary engagements and personal reflections. It describes his newfound passion for Browning's poetry during the winter of , highlighting how he painstakingly analyzed and read it aloud to friends, enhancing their understanding through his interpretations. Additionally, we learn about Twain's skeptical views on George Meredith's work and his retreat into familiar literary favorites as he grappled with the changes brought about by age. The narrative also touches on his business endeavors, such as a new interest in memory practices that he later denounced, and his interactions with notable figures of the time, setting the stage for a complex and multifaceted portrayal of this iconic American writer. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

    MARK TWAIN: A BIOGRAPHY; The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Volumes I-III

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