Mark Twain

The list Mark Twain includes Mark Twain, Hal Holbrook, Olivia Langdon Clemens, Clara Clemens and Jean Webster. The list consists of 66 members and 7 sublists.

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Mark Twain

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Adaptations of works by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain characters
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Depictions of Mark Twain
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Gilded Age
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Works by Mark Twain
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Works about Mark Twain
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Mark Twain

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Overview: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1835

Date of death: 21 April 1910

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Christian abolitionists 358T

Anti-vivisectionists 128T

Writers from Elmira, New York 15T
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Hal Holbrook

American actor (1925–2021)

Overview: Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director and writer. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1925

Date of death: 23 January 2021

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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2021 deaths 4,263T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Olivia Langdon Clemens

Wife of Mark Twain

Overview: Olivia Langdon Clemens (November 27, 1845 – June 5, 1904) was the wife of the famous American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.

Date of birth: 27 November 1845

Date of death: 5 June 1904

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York) 17T

Clemens family 10T

University of Hartford people 15T
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Clara Clemens

American; daughter of Mark Twain; opera singer

Overview: Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, formerly Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch (June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962), was a daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She was a contralto concert ...

Date of birth: 8 June 1874

Date of death: 19 November 1962

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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American women biographers 266T

American women non-fiction writers 2,503T

Converts to Christian Science from Presbyterianism 6T
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Jean Webster

American novelist

Overview: Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1876

Date of death: 11 June 1916

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women politicians 1,263T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Jean Clemens

Youngest daughter of Mark Twain

Overview: Jane Lampton "Jean" Clemens (July 26, 1880 – December 24, 1909) was the daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known by his pen name Mark Twain) and Olivia Langdon Clemens. She drowned in a ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1880

Date of death: 24 December 1909

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Female

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Animal welfare workers 106T

Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York) 17T

People from Katonah, New York 49T
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George Washington Cable

American novelist

Overview: George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1844

Date of death: 31 January 1925

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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19th-century American male writers 904T

Novelists from Louisiana 108T

Writers from Northampton, Massachusetts 27T
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Gilded Age

U.S. history from the 1870s to 1900

Overview: In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s ...

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Periodization 8T

1870s neologisms 5T

Gilded Age 87T
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Orion Clemens

American politician

Overview: Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825– December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. He is best known through his relationship to his famed younger brother, author Samuel Langhorne ...

Date of birth: 6 October 1825

Date of death: 11 December 1897

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Male

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19th-century American lawyers 4,099T

American male journalists 4,321T

19th-century American journalists 678T
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Susy Clemens

Eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens

Overview: Olivia Susan "Susy" Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896), was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon C ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1872

Date of death: 18 August 1896

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Writers from Elmira, New York 15T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

19th-century American women writers 1,226T
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Albert Paine

American writer

Overview: Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1861

Date of death: 9 April 1937

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American novelists 5,576T

People from Clay County, Illinois 15T
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Michael Patrick Hearn

American literary critic

Overview: Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar and one of America's leading men of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Male biographers 725T

American male writers 5,949T
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Gilbert Bates

U.S. Civil War Veteran

Overview: Gilbert Henderson Bates (February 13, 1836 – February 17, 1917) was an American soldier best known for his peaceful postwar marches, first throughout the American South and through England. For each ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1836

Date of death: 17 February 1917

Age: 81 (age at death)

Occupation: Farmer

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People from Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin 8T

Farmers from Wisconsin 606T

People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War 497T
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William P. Perry

American composer and television producer

Overview: William P. Perry (born 1930 in Elmira, New York) in is an American composer and producer of television and film. His music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Detroit ...

Date of birth: 1930

Age: 94

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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American male classical composers 1,120T

Male film score composers 2,041T

Pupils of Walter Piston 23T
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Charles Dudley Warner

American writer

Overview: Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Date of birth: 12 September 1829

Date of death: 20 October 1900

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

Novelists from Massachusetts 401T

People from Charlemont, Massachusetts 14T
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Bernard Devoto

American historian and author (1897–1955)

Overview: Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897–1955), American historian, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer, was a lifelong champion of American Public lands and the conservation of public resources as ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1897

Date of death: 13 November 1955

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Bancroft Prize winners 154T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Ron Powers

American writer

Overview: Ron Powers (born November 18, 1941) is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer. His works include No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America; ...

Date of birth: 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

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21st-century American biographers 114T

20th-century American biographers 388T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Jane Lampton Clemens

Mother of author Mark Twain

Overview: Jane Lampton Clemens (June 18, 1803 – October 27, 1890) was the mother of author Mark Twain. She was the inspiration of the character "Aunt Polly" in Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She ...

Date of birth: 18 June 1803

Date of death: 27 October 1890

Age: 87 (age at death)

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American slave owners 937T

19th-century American women 489T

Clemens family 11T
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Halley's Comet

short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years

Overview: Halley's Comet is a short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years, though with the majority of recorded apparations (25 of 30) occurring after ...

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Numbered comets 16T

Near-Earth comets 6T

Periodic comets 14T
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Hannibal, Missouri

City in Missouri, United States

Overview: Hannibal is a city along the Mississippi River in Marion and Ralls counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,312, making it the largest city in Marion ...

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