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