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mark twain
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There aren't many people who can be called the best in America. Michael Jordan, who has won numerous championships, can be considered the best in the game of basketball. Tiger woods is said to be the best golfer ever. George Washington is said to be one of the best presidents in America history. Among these great figures on America are sometime forgotten American authors. Mark Twain is one of the best authors to ever walk on American soil. He wrote numerous books and short essays that are now considered a work of art. His life and his writings were also extremely interesting. Mark Twain had hard times as well as good times, like all of us in this world. Unfortunately, there was mors bad than good for Twain. Despite the pain he endured, Twain contributed to American Literature through his famous writing that are still being read today. In order to find out how a man could write some of the greatest books in history, we must start at the beginning. Mark Twain was not always known as Mark. He was born asSamuel Langhorn Clemens on November 30,1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth son of John MArshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. "He had been a sickly child- he said he "lived mainly on allopathic medicine during the first seven years of his life" (De Koster 16).
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