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Mark Twain
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Twain wrote many of his classic novels during his 17 years in Hartford (1874–1891) and over 20 summers at Quarry Farm
They include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
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Born on November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri
Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer
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He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada
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He first used his pen name on February 3, 1863, when he wrote a humorous travel account titled "Letter From Carson – Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" and signed it "Mark Twain"
His experiences in the American West inspired "Roughing It", written during 1870–71 and published in 1872
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Twain was an early proponent of fingerprinting as a forensic technique, featuring it in a tall tale in "Life on the Mississippi" (1883) and as a central plot element in the novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894)
Twain's novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889) features a time traveler from the contemporary U.S., using his knowledge of science to introduce modern technology to Arthurian England
In 1909, Thomas Edison visited Twain at Stormfield, his home in Redding, Connecticut and filmed him. Part of the footage was used in The Prince and the Pauper (1909), a two-reel short film. It is the only known existing film footage of Twain
He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth
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