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Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835. [7] The house was rented by his parents Jane Lampton Clemens (1803–1890) and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847). [ 8 ]
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) first visited Elmira in 1868 at the invitation of Charles Langdon, a young man he had befriended during the Holy Land Excursion of the Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City), a pleasure cruise which Twain would soon turn into his first bestselling book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). [3]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ."
Nina Clemens Grabilowitcsh, the last direct descendant of Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon Clemens, died at age 55 on Jan. 19, 1966 and is buried in the Langdon plot at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Samuel Clemens founded Charles L. Webster and Company in 1884. The firm closed in 1894 after Clemens declared bankruptcy. Photo: Sarony 1895 Charles L. Webster and Company was an American subscription publishing firm founded in New York in 1884 by author and journalist Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain. [1]
One of Clemens' more popular pieces in 1862 was the unsigned "Petrified Man". Clemens claimed that a petrified man who had lived "close about a century ago" had been found "south of Gravelly Ford", [5] and was perfectly "stony" except for his missing left leg "which has evidently been a wooden one during the lifetime of the owner."
Samuel Clemens (center) with American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Express [1] The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. William J. Conners, the owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two papers together ...
Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens, produced by Ken Burns in 2001 which aired on Public Broadcasting System on January 14 and 15, 2002. [1] Burns attempted to capture both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David. [2]