Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). Author, lecturer. Born in Florida, MO, November 30, 1835. Educated in common schools, Hannibal, MO. Twain attended Yale (M.A., L.H.D., 1901) and the University of Missouri (LL.D., 1902). Apprenticed to printer at 12, worked at trade, and for a short time was a Mississippi pilot. Twain became private secretary to his brother in 1861. City editor of Virginia City, NV, "Enterprise," 1862. Alternated between mining and newspaper work until, becoming noted as a humorist, he began lecturing and writing books. Founded 1884 publishing house of C. L. Webster & Co., failure of which involved him in heavy losses. Paid its debts by proceeds of lectures and books. Traveled extensively. Author: "The Jumping Frog," The Innocents Abroad," "Autobiography and First Romance," "The Gilded Age" (with late C. D. Warner), "Roughing It," "Sketches New and Old," "Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Punch Brothers, Punch," "A Tramp Abroad," "The Prince and the Pauper," "The Stolen White Elephant," "Life on the Mississippi," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur," "The American Claimant," "Merry Tales," "The £1,000,000 Bank Abroad," "Joan of Arc," "Following the Equator," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," "A Double-Barreled Detective Story," "Christian Science." Died 1910.

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