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Who Was Mark Twain?

Who Was Mark Twain? "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." —Mark Twain If you can't quite place the name Mark Twain, think of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: They're Mark Twain's most famous books. Mark Twain was America's greatest storyteller. He was so good at making up stories that he even made up his name. (He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens.) His best stories came from his own boyhood adventures in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri.

Mark Twain had an exciting life—he was a steamboat pilot, a gold miner, a newspaper reporter. He traveled all around the world giving lectures—which were really more like one-man shows—about his writing and experiences. Mark Twain became the most famous and successful author of his day. Many of his stories are funny, but often the humor touches serious issues, including racism, greed, and injustice. America changed a great deal during Mark Twain's life. He challenged Americans to look at who they were and where they were going.

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