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= Mark Twain =



= __Early Life__: = = I was born on November 30, 1835, as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri. At the age of four, my family moved to the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, which was the inspiriation for several of my stories and novels. In 1842, I began working as a typesetter and contributer of articles and humorous sketches for a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. On a voyage to New Orleans, down the Mississippi, the steamboat pilot, Horace E. Bixby, inspired me to pursue a career as a steamboat pilot. As a journalist for the Virginia City //Territorial Enterprise//, I published my first article under the pen name Mark Twain. = = __Later Life:__ = =In the last decades of my life, I suffered one painful loss after another. In 1894, a publishing business that I had started in the 1880s had failed, forcing me to declare bankruptcy. I went through a period of depression begining in 1896, from the loss of my cherished Hartford mansion, the death of my wife Olivia and two of my daughters. I fell ill after the death of my daughter Jean on Christmas Eve, in 1909. I died a few months later, on April 21.=
 * The house where Mark Twain raised his family and wrote his best-loved works. ||

__Some Of My Works:__
 * //The Gilded age//
 * //A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court//
 * //A Double Barrelled Detective Story//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//A Horse's Tail//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Mysterious Stranger//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Those Extraordinary Twins//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Tom Sawyer Abroad//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Tom Sawyer, Detective//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//A Tramp Abroad//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Christian Science//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Innocents Abroad//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> //Is Shakespeare Dead?//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Adventures of Tom Sawyer//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Prince and The Pauper//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Autobiography of Mark Twain//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Lif on the Mississippi//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Roughing It//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//How to Tell a Story and Other Essays//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Meisterchaft//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//Amended Obituaries//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//The Invalid's Story//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//A Dog's Tale//
 * <span style="color: #00ffe9; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #50beb5; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//My First Lie, And How I Got Out Of It//



=  "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter" <span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">- Mark Twain   = = = = <span style="color: #e7520d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called //Huckleberry Finn//" = =<span style="font-size: 70%; color: #e0f82a; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">- <span style="font-size: 70%; color: #eb7224; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ernest Hemingway =