Born on November 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".  He passed away on  April 21, 1910.

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