(1907)
(‘age 72’)
(he died 3 years later)
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*american ‘writer’ / ‘entrepreneur’ / ‘publisher’ / ‘lecturer’*
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(‘30 november 1835’ – ‘21 april 1910’)
(died @ age ‘74’)
(‘heart attack’)
(in ‘redding’ / ‘connecticut’)
(1 day after ‘halley’s comet’ made its closest approach to earth)
(just as he had predicted all his life)
(because he was born ‘2 weeks’ after the last ‘closest approach’ of ‘halley’s comet’)
(which can be observed every ~75 years)
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*real name* —>
“samuel langhorne clemens”
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*pen name* —>
“mark twain”
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(among his novels are the adventures of tom sawyer (1876) + its sequel 9 years later, adventures of huckleberry finn (1885))
(he wrote ‘adventures of tom sawyer’ when he was ‘41 years old’)
(‘adventures of huckleberry finn’ is often cited as “THE great american novel”)
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*by whom?*
(as wiki-editors so often ask (in writing))
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(twain was raised in ‘hannibal’ (/ ‘missouri’), which later provided the setting for tom sawyer + huckleberry finn)
(after an ‘apprenticeship’ with a ‘printer’, ‘twain’ worked as a ‘typesetter’ and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother ‘orion clemens’)
(he later became a ‘riverboat pilot’ on the ‘mississippi river’ before heading west to join ‘orion’ in ‘nevada’)
(he referred humorously to his lack of success at ‘mining’, turning to ‘journalism’ for virginia city’s territorial enterprise)
(in ‘1865’, his humorous story “the celebrated jumping frog of ‘calaveras county’” was published, based on a story he heard at ‘angels hotel’ in ‘angels camp’ (/ ‘california’), where he had spent some time as a ‘miner’)
(the ‘short story’ brought ‘international attention’, and was even translated into ‘classic greek’)
(his ‘wit’ + ‘satire’ (in ‘prose’ + in ‘speech’) earned ‘praise’ from ‘critics’ + ‘peers’, and he was a friend to ‘presidents’, ‘artists’, ‘industrialists’, and ‘european royalty’)
(though ‘twain’ earned a great deal of money from his ‘writings’ + ‘lectures’, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the ‘paige compositor’ (a mechanical typesetter), which failed because of its ‘complexity’ + ‘imprecision’)
(in the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for ‘protection’ from his ‘creditors’ via ‘bankruptcy’, and with the help of ‘henry huttleston rogers’ eventually overcame his ‘financial troubles’)
(‘twain’ chose to pay all his ‘pre-bankruptcy creditors’ in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so)
(‘twain’ was born shortly after a visit by ‘halley’s comet’, and he predicted that he would “go out with it” too)
(he died the day after the ‘comet’ returned)
(he was lauded as the “greatest american humorist of his age”)
((no less than) ‘william faulkner’ (himself) considered twain to be “the father of american literature”)
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👈👈👈☜*“AMERICAN WRITERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*the (dreaded) ‘dead white men’*
*subset of the proverbial ‘dead white men’*
*born in the ‘american south’ before abolition of slavery no less*
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥