Twain, Mark Samuel Clemens

Samuel Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain, is regarded as one of America s most outstanding writers. Well known for his humorous stories and books, Twain was also a pioneer of fictional realism and local color. His most famous novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), is often hailed as a masterpiece. This selection is from the autobiographical book Life on the Mississippi (1883), which recounts Clemens job as a riverboat pilot. 

Popular American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) described many of his childhood experiences in Tom Sawyer (1876). 

The U.S. customary system of measurement includes the mark twain, indicating the two-fathom depth that was considered the minimum safe depth for steam-powered riverhoats on the Mississippi River. The term mark twain was adopted as a pen name hy the American writer Samuel Clemens, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Snfi) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). 

Still broke with allopathy, as orthodox medicine was called, on June 22, 1874, when he "flung the banner of osteopath to the breeze." "He moved about Kansas and Missouri as an itinerant physician, gaining a following of patients and fmally settled in Kiiksville, Missouri. He was later supported in letters and testimoity by a fellow Missourian, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)."... 

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