Twain, Mark

1. The nom de plume of Samuel L. Clemens , an American author and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is famous for his stories with settings along the Mississippi River ; his books include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi , and The Prince and the Pauper .

Notes

Twain, who was once a steamboat pilot, took his pen name from a term used in river navigation meaning “two fathoms deep.”

Example Sentences

Cosby had turned down the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor twice before.

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Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

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At twenty-five, I started to write a book about Mark Twain at twenty-five.

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I thought of Mark Twain, as I imagined Lincoln inhabiting the voice Huck Finn might have had as an adult.

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Aleichem became one of the most popular Jewish authors of the time, hailed as the Jewish Mark Twain.

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It is not, as Mark Twain would say, that there is anything the matter with it, Scotch beef is the best in the world.

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It is thought by my family to be an excellent likeness of Mark Twain.

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And Mark Twain's method is his own as intimately as the puppets of his imagining.

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In calm, as in flood, Mark Twain has mastered the river, and has made it his own.

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Of course this was a long time before Mark Twain went there and wept over the tomb of Adam.

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