Clemens Samuel Langhorne
Related to Clemens Samuel Langhorne: Samuel Langley
photographed c. 1907
Clemens
, Samuel Langhorne Pen name Mark Twain (twān) 1835-1910. American author who drew on his childhood along the Mississippi River to create masterpieces of humor and sarcasm, including Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
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