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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American author and humorist. He is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter of which has been called "the Great American Novel."

Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835.

He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River that served as the inspiration for the setting of his novels. Twain left school at the age of 12 to work as a printer's apprentice.

She married Samuel Langhorne Clemens in February 1870, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States.

He later worked as a riverboat pilot, a journalist, and a lecturer.

Twain began his writing career in 1852, publishing humorous sketches in newspapers and magazines. He achieved national fame with the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), a travelogue of his trip to Europe and the Holy Land.

Twain's most famous works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

These novels are considered classics of American literatu