Mark Twain
American Author and Humorist
1835-1910
The man with a new idea
is a crank until the idea succeeds.
--Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (pen name Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. Twain is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1894) are still popular with modern readers.
In 1839 the Clemens family moved t…
