Mark Twain
Date Submitted: 02/10/2004 21:32:27
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 9 pages (2346 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 9 pages (2346 words)
Cohen 1
Jeffrey Cohen
Mrs. Schroeder-Blumke
American Authors
26 March 1999
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most
distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is
arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen.
In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John
Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon
married John. The family …
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…Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: Simon and
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