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Mark Twain Research Paper

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Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Twain’s father died when he was only eleven, so he had to drop out of school at grade five and work. He became a typesetter for his brother’s newspaper, where he helped to write some of the articles. . When he was eighteen he left Hannibal, the town he grew up in, and worked as a printer in big cities such as Philadelphia and Cincinnati. In these cities he was able to educate himself on how to better read and write using public libraries. When Twain got older he got his piloting license and became a riverboat pilot. When the civil war began, he headed west and became a miner. His experiences there lead to the writing of many of his books,

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