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No author in American literature(文学)is better known or more loved than Samuel Langhorne Clemens．Born in Mission in 1835, he grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River and later used the pen name of “ Mark Twain”．The two novels, Tom Sawyer and Hucklebery Fin, brought him great fame．Another book, Life on the Mississippi, told of his adventures on the river boats of that period．It was during the Civil War that Mark Twain’s life as a writer started．At that time he was working as a newspaper man in Nevada and California．In 1870, Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon．He had fallen in love with her picture even before he met her, Mark Twain was also a very successful lecturer．He travels around the country giving talks on variety(不同)of subjects helped make him famous and increase the sale of his books．
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