Who was Mark Twain?

Answer 1

Mark Twain was the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens (born in Missouri November 30, 1835 – died April 21, 1910). He was an American humorist, writer, lecturer, satirist who also worked on a newspaper, worked as a printer and pursued a career as a steamboat pilot. He was an excellent writer and quite witty.

Answer 2

Samuel Clements write under the pen name Mark Twain, which means check the water depth in the river for the ship (which job he had done before becoming a writer).

Mark Twain said: "I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."

Answer 3

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and other novels and works of non-fiction. He is one of the classic American writers and possibly our greatest humorist.

Answer 4

Mark Twian is the pen name for Samual F. Clemens. He wrote Tales of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, owned a newspaper, was a river pilot on the Mississippi River (Mark Twain, was a call to the pilot when the Lubber line, the OLD way of determining the depth of the water, it referred to the second knot on the line. this was the depth at which most boats are in danger of running aground.).

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Answer 5

Oh, I hope you take your question elsewhere..these answers are toooooo sad. Mark Twain was the pen name of author Samuel Clemens a wonderful writers from the 19th century. "Innocents Abroad" and many others.

It was Mark Twain's wit and wisdom that gets him most remembered. For those who visit the west coast you'll appreciate his comment regarding the weather here in San Francisco;

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco"

try quotations sites to read more.

Answer 6

Scholars say the mark twain is the name given to an old wooden ship from the civil war era.

Answer 7

Mark Twain is an Author. he writes books mostly for 5th grade reading level. Sometimes his books aren't clear

Answer 8

one of the Twain brothers, seperated at birth hence the phrase 'never the twain shall meet'

Answer 9

Samuel L. Clemen's...newspaperman and steam boat man...wrote huckleberry finn among others...got his nom de plume from the depth measurement of the mississippi

Answer 10

He opened up the first Clam Shack in Nebraska. People thought this was pretty radical at the time considering Nebraska isn't a coastal state