Full Name: Samuel Clemens
Profession: Author
Nationality:
American
Why Famous: American author and humorist, best known for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
Born: November 30, 1835
Birthplace: Florida, Missouri, USA
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Died: April 21, 1910 (aged 74)
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Articles on Mark Twain
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River of Dreams Delivers a Writer of Genius
Forced to find a new job when the American Civil War struck the Mississippi river, Samuel Longhorne Clemens turned to writing and Mark Twain was born.
February 2, 1863![How the Qwerty Keyboard was Born]()
How the Qwerty Keyboard was Born
A typewriter patent was granted on this day to the man who would go on to produce and inflict on us all the ubiquitous Qwerty keyboard.
June 23, 1868
Married Life
- 1870-02-02 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
Events in the Life of Mark Twain
- 1863-02-03 Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the "Territorial Enterprise"
- 1865-11-18 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- 1884-12-10 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
- 1885-02-18 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
- 1931-04-06 "A Connecticut Yankee" film based on novel by Mark Twain, directed by David Butler, starring Will Rogers is released
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