mark twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer an writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty.

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He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands"
In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper
The monument on his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y. is 12' high; in water depth that's 2 fathoms
Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author
When his father died in 1847, he had to leave school & work as a printer's apprentice at the Hannibal Courier
"Tom Sawyer" author who said, "There is no distincly Native American criminal class, except Congress"
By 1877 he had his idea for a story in which Edward VI & a pauper change places
In 1896, 20 years after the original work, he wrote "Tom Sawyer, Detective"
Missouri's national forest named for this writer is nowhere near the city of Hannibal
Appropriately named sternwheeler that circles Tom Sawyer Island
Samuel Clemens first used this pseudonym on February 3, 1863 in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise
Joseph Hopkins Twichell, this man's "Tramp Abroad" traveling companion, conducted his funeral service
"The Pilgrim From Hannibal"
This 19th century American humorist observed, "Be careful about reading health books, you may die of a misprint"
This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Giza, Egypt.) After seeing the Sphinx he wrote in "Innocents Abroad", "The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing"
From 1862 to 1864 he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada
The Bancroft Library in Berkeley has issued a new edition of his "Huckleberry Finn" with all 174 orig. illustrations
This author said that he based Injun Joe on a real man he knew who got lost in a cave
Horace Bixby, a steamboat pilot, taught this American author the skills of the trade
He wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as a sequel to "Tom Sawyer"
The AP received his 1897 telegram saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
Horace Bixby, who was nicknamed "The Lightning Pilot", taught this famous author how to pilot a riverboat
He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839
In 1897, responding to a rumor, he wrote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
Fishing & swimming are permitted at Tom Sawyer Lake near this author's Missouri birthplace
This 19th c. humorist:"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"
"Roughing It","Life on the Mississippi"
An article that he wrote about his riverboat days was eventually expanded into "Life on the Mississippi"
In a June 1897 issue of the New York Journal he quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi"
This "Huck Finn" author wrote "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example"
Richard Pryor was the first recipient of a Kennedy Center humorists' prize named for this American author
The Palace Hotel in S.F. has played host to such luminaries as Oscar Wilde & this "Prince and the Pauper" scribe
Around 11:00 P.M., we break out the card game "authors"; do you have any of this man seen here?
Author who had Tom cruise on the Mississippi
In Jan. 1851 he had his first known piece published: "A Gallant Fireman", in Hannibal's Western Union
His famous quip "The report of my death was an exaggeration" was reported in the New York Journal in 1897
In 1870, a year after he wrote "The Innocents Abroad", he married Olivia Langdon
Advice from this American author: "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear"
"Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z"
Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used this pen name in 1863 while with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nev.
A reporter for the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise first used this byline Feb. 2, 1863
Author who defined a classic as "A book which people praise and don't read"
In 1999 the Kennedy Center awarded Jonathan Winters the prize named after this humorist
This novelist based the fictional town of St. Petersburg on Hannibal, where he grew up
"The New Pilgrim's Progress" is how he described his "Innocents Abroad"
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did...I've done it 1,000 times" is attributed to this 19th c. humorist
Now at Elmira College, this author's study was made to look like a Mississippi riverboat's pilothouse
In 1881 Louis Tiffany & others decorated the first floor of this author's mansion in Hartford, Conn.
Each year, the Kennedy Center gives a humor award named for this 19th century novelist
Prefabricated & shipped by steamboat to Hannibal, Mo., Pilaster House is a childhood home of this author
As Pudd'nhead Wilson, he wrote, "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been"
He wrote, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society"
He wrote, "I am a great & sublime fool. But... I am God's fool, & all his works must be contemplated with respect"
In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it"
After being "A Tramp Abroad", this author yearned for home-style foods like possum & 'coon
Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them"
Joseph Hopkins Twichell was this author's companion during the trip that produced "A Tramp Abroad"
His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad"
In an early version of his "Mysterious Stranger", a young Satan goes by the name Philip Traum
1859: This author receives his steamboat pilot's license
In "Pudd'nhead Wilson" he wrote, "One of the differences between a cat & a lie is that a cat has only 9 lives"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Caffe Florian in Venice, Italy) "I have not known any happier hours than those I daily spent in front of Florian's", wrote this U.S. author in "A Tramp Abroad"
In "Roughing It", this American author described the thrill of seeing an Express rider
In "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson", this author wrote, "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear"
"Always do right." he wrote; "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"
2 fathoms, the minimum safe clearance for steamboats, inspired this 19th century pen name
A national forest in Missouri's Ozarks is named for this 19th century writer
In 1897, hearing his obituary had been published, he cabled that the report of his death was an exaggeration
He wrote about fictional children Willie Mufferson, Joe Harper, & Sid Sawyer
Pudd'nhead Wilson
The only National Forest in Missouri is named for this author
Kurt Vonnegut's opening remarks on this author say, "His schoolbooks were steamboats and mining camps"
This pseudonym means "2 fathoms deep"
This American humorist's "War Prayer", about the Spanish-American War, was published in 1923, after his death

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