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Mark Twain


Born
in Florida, Missouri, The United States
November 30, 1835

Died
April 21, 1910

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 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." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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Life on the Mississippi

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Quotes by Mark Twain  (?)
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
Mark Twain

Polls

If you could bring any deceased author back from the dead to write some more books, who would it be? (Fill in your answers below).

JRR Tolkein
Jrr Tolkien
 
  12 votes, 21.1%

All those and Frank Herbert, H. G. Wells, Maya Angelou, Louisa May Alcott, Ann Radcliffe, Daphne du Maurier, Anne McCaffney, Octavia E. Butler, Madeleine L’Engle, P. D. James, Shirley Jackson, Ann Radcliffe, and so many more. (write-in)
 
  8 votes, 14.0%

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
 
  5 votes, 8.8%

Jane Austen
Jane Austen
 
  5 votes, 8.8%

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
 
  3 votes, 5.3%

Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

F Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

George Orwell
George Orwell
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

Agatha Christie (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

Raymond Chandler (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

Maya Angelou (write-in)
 
  2 votes, 3.5%

Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Jules Verne
Jules Verne
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Frank Yerby (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Daphne Du Maurier (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Isaac Asimov
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Edgar Allan Poe (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Alexandre Dumas
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Ray Bradbury (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Jovan Autonomaševič (write-in)
 
  1 vote, 1.8%

Emily Bronte
Emily Brontë
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Mark Twain
Mark Twain
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

William Golding
William Golding
 
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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
 
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Harper Lee
 
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