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Mark Twain
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Noun1.Mark Twain - United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)Mark Twain - United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)


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History buffs and general audiences will appreciate stories that include such historical figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Clemens and William Randolph Hearst.
This was the dynamic time when Virginia City was taking shape, and Samuel Clemens arrived in town, eventually taking the name, Mark Twain, while working as a reporter," he added.
Rumor holds that he was already keeping up a one-hundred-cigar-per-month habit by the age of nine (his supply came from a kindly shopkeeper who paid the young Twain, nee Samuel Clemens, in cigars for brining him water).
 
 
 
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