*Real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens
*Mark Twain is a riverboat term indicating twelve fathoms or "safe water" (His favorite)
*His first book was Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches
*He was a man of many extreme contradictions: a humorist-funnyman, he became a prophet despair,he spent most of his mature years and did most of his writing on the East Coast or in Europe
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