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Mark Twain (Writings (Genres (But Mark Twain was neither a poet nor a…

- - - - The stuff and manner of the tale are unique, and it is as imperishably substantial as Robinson Crusoe, whether one admire it with Andrew Lang as “a nearly flawless gem of romance and humour” or with Professor Matthews as “a marvellously accurate portrayal of a whole civilization.”
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      - "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway
        https://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564
    - - Twain’s critical eye, and ear, of social observation and political injustices of an often bigoted America, along with a clever tongue, much like that of his young heroes, has solidified his role as what no less a luminary than William Faulkner called ‘the father of American literature’
        https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/missouri/articles/mark-twain-and-the-shaping-of-american-literature/
      - Ultimately, Twain's attitudes of openness and judgment -- towards
        
        regional populations and regions themselves -- challenge us to reconsider quiescent,
        
        domestic portraits of regions in light of an increasingly mobile citizenry and expanding
        
        nation.
- - - - n 1857, at the age of twenty-two, Sam Clemens boarded a steamboat and headed to New Orleans.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - For the next two years, Clemens learned how to pilot a riverboat on the Mississippi River. He gained his piloting license in April 1859 and made a good living until the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861 when all commercial traffic on the river stopped.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - Clemens then joined the Marion Rangers, a group of Confederate volunteers that disbanded after only two weeks.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
    - - Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/
    - - thought he could make a fortune mining for silver or gold. https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - Clemens failed and returned to journalism, this time as a reporter.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
    - - In 1863 he began signing his name with the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” a river term meaning “two fathoms deep.” Mark Twain would be Clemens’s pen name for the rest of his life.https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - When his short story “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” was published and widely circulated in 1865 by the Saturday Press of New York, Mark Twain became a nationally known humorist.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - Clemens had a natural talent for telling stories and making speeches. He would lecture on and off for the rest of his life.
        https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
      - In 1867, Clemens set sail as a traveling correspondent on a grand tour of Europe and the Mideast for the San Francisco Alto California. https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
    - - fter this journey, Clemens met Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York. They married in 1870 and soon settled in Hartford, Connecticut. Together they had four children: a son, Langdon, who died as an infant, and three daughters—Susy, Clara, and Jean.https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/c/clemens/#section4
    - - A poor businessman, he invested much of his earnings in worthless inventions, and was often in debt. But his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant helped Twain bring in some desperately needed cash.
        http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-clemens/
      - No American of our time was more widely known; no other American writer lately among the living had endeared himself to so large and cosmopolitan an audience.
        http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/sc_as_mt/mtobit4.html
      - From the exuberant journalist who gave us entertainment in his earlier days he developed into something like a sage to whom we came to look no less for counsel than for amusement. We learned to detect in his homely speech the movings of a fine spirit, instinct with the nobler promptings of democracy, hating shams and ostentatious vulgarity, gentle and gracious in its quieter moods, but fanned to burning indignation when facing some monstrous wickedness
        http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/sc_as_mt/mtobit4.html
    - - Twain's financial failings, reminiscent in some ways of his father's, had serious consequences for his state of mind. They contributed powerfully to a growing pessimism in him, a deep-down feeling that human existence is a cosmic joke perpetrated by a chuckling God.
        https://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564
      - Much of the last decade of his life, he lived in hell," wrote Hamlin Hill.
        https://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564