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Mark Twain

1835 - 1910

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Twain is the 60th most popular writer (down from 54th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from United States (down from 46th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Writer.

Mark Twain is most famous for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Among writers, Mark Twain ranks 60 out of 7,302. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, and Oscar Wilde. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, and Selma Lagerlöf.

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Among people born in 1835, Mark Twain ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius X. After him are Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, and Demetrius Vikelas. Among people deceased in 1910, Mark Twain ranks 3. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, and Edward VII. After him are Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, Henri Rousseau, Nadar, O. Henry, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Twain ranks 51 out of 20,380. Before him are Al Gore (1948), George W. Bush (1946), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Walt Disney (1901), Maria Callas (1923), and George Marshall (1880). After him are Aretha Franklin (1942), Janis Joplin (1943), Robert De Niro (1943), John Wilkes Booth (1838), Harry S. Truman (1884), and Joan Baez (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mark Twain ranks 6. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), T. S. Eliot (1888), Emily Dickinson (1830), Ernest Hemingway (1899), and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896). After him are Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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