| On This Day in American History |
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On November 30, 1835, American writer Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is born in Florida, Missouri. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which served as the backdrop for his most famous novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain was also a prolific essayist and worked as a journalist as a young man. According to author William Faulkner, Twain was “the father of American literature.” Twain died in 1910. |
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