Twain, Mark

Country/Region:: USA
Born:: November 30, 1835
Dead:: April 21, 1910
Genres:: Miscellaneous prose, Drama

The presentation was last updated November 15, 2021

Pseudonym for the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark twain" is marine jargon for "two fathoms deep" and goes back to when Clemens worked as a pilot on the Mississippi River, a period of his life he has described in Life on the Mississippi.

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The article written by: Roger Söderberg. Published: June 15, 1998
Last update: June 21, 2015 by Alex editorial staff

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