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1 – Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born on November 30th 1835.\u00a0He died on April 21st, 1910.<\/p>\n1 – Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born on November 30th 1835.\u00a0He died on April 21st, 1910.<\/p>\n
2 – For a time he worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.\u00a0He also worked as a newspaper journalist and a miner before he turned to writing fiction.<\/p>\n
3 – While he was well paid as a writer, he was plagued with financial problems. One of his biggest problems was bad investments. He lost a lot of money with his investment in Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter.\u00a0Twain eventually declared bankruptcy. However later he paid back all of his creditors.<\/p>\n
4 – He married Olivia Landon in 1870. They remained together until her death in 1904. They had four children.<\/p>\n
5\u00a0– Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley’s Comet. He told people that he would “go out with it” as well. Here’s a quote from Twain in 1909.<\/p>\n
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