Mark Twain

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He signed a piece in the Hannibal Journal with the pseudonym W. Epaminondas Adrastus Perkins; he settled on a different pen name Twain $400 J PEN NAMES 2026-03-19 #9524
His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year Twain $400 DJ AUTHORS' NONFICTION 2022-01-12 #8553
In person or online, you can tour his Hartford home where he wrote "Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain $400 DJ AUTHORS' HOMES 2020-11-11 #8278
His "The Innocents Abroad" was based on letters he wrote to newspapers as a traveling correspondent Mark Twain $1,600 DJ LETTERS FROM AUTHORS 2020-10-05 #8251
The town of Hadleyburg Mark Twain $800 J AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES 2018-02-07 #7693
In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain $1,200 DJ AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS 2017-04-03 #7501
He has a House & Museum in Hartford & a Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal Mark Twain $200 J AUTHORS' MUSEUMS 2014-10-06 #6911
The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall Mark Twain DD $1,000 J AUTHORS' PLOTS 2014-04-07 #6811
Vachel Lindsay's poem "The Raft" said this author "in white stands gleaming like a pillar of the night" Mark Twain DD $3,000 DJ AUTHORS ON AUTHORS 2013-09-25 #6673
As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain $600 J AUTHORS 2013-07-31 #6663
Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them" Mark Twain $800 DJ AUTHORS ON AUTHORS 2007-10-23 #5317
"Calaveras County" & "Hannibal" are entries in R. Kent Rasmussen's book this man "A to Z" Mark Twain $400 J BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS 2006-12-06 #5118
This pseudonym means "2 fathoms deep" Mark Twain DD $2,000 DJ PEN NAMES 2003-07-15 #4362
He based the character of Sid Sawyer on his own brother Henry, but said Henry was "a very much finer" boy Mark Twain $800 DJ AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES 2003-07-04 #4355
The Palace Hotel in S.F. has played host to such luminaries as Oscar Wilde & this "Prince and the Pauper" scribe Mark Twain $400 DJ IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AUTHORS 2003-04-01 #4287
Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain $1,200 DJ SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR 2002-09-10 #4142
Articles he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in 1875 became Chapters IV to XVII in "Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain $300 J AUTHORS 2000-03-24 #3590
When his father died in 1847, he had to leave school & work as a printer's apprentice at the Hannibal Courier Mark Twain $100 J AUTHORS' ODD JOBS 1998-09-29 #3232
He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839 Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1997-06-23 #2966
His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad" Mark Twain $800 DJ AUTHORS 1997-06-06 #2955
He wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as a sequel to "Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain $200 DJ CLASSIC BOOKS & AUTHORS 1997-04-28 #2926
"The Pilgrim From Hannibal" Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS' NICKNAMES 1997-04-25 #2925
This creator of Huck Finn has been called the first major American writer born west of the Mississippi Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1996-12-13 #2830
In 1859 this "Tom Sawyer" author became a licensed riverboat pilot Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1996-06-28 #2740
In his early years, this "Tom Sawyer" author used such pen names as Sergeant Fathom & Josh Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1996-06-03 #2721
He based Tom Sawyer's half-brother Sid on his own younger brother Henry Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1995-07-12 #2518
William Dean Howells called this Missouri-born humorist "The Lincoln of Literature" Mark Twain $1,000 DJ QUOTES ABOUT AUTHORS 1994-04-21 #2229
In the late 1850s Horace Bixby, a riverboat pilot, taught him the skills of the trade Mark Twain $100 J AUTHORS 1993-05-11 #2012
He said the boy he based Huck Finn on grew up to become a justice of the peace in Montana Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS 1993-03-10 #1968
In 1848 this future author was apprenticed as a printer at his brother's Hannibal Journal Mark Twain $200 DJ AUTHORS 1991-12-30 #1691
Appropriately, his sister-in-law built him a study that was inspired by a riverboat's pilothouse Mark Twain $200 J AUTHORS 1988-06-07 #882
Isaiah Sellers, also a writer & river pilot, 1st used this pen name later used by Samuel Clemens Mark Twain $200 DJ PEN NAMES 1987-06-12 #655
His brother Orion bought the Hannibal Journal in 1851 Mark Twain $400 DJ AUTHORS 1987-05-18 #636
To "amuse" his mother, he hid in his pockets bats which he'd found in a Hannibal cave Mark Twain $400 DJ AUTHORS 1986-10-31 #495
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