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Mark Twain
American humorist and novelist Mark Twain, c. 1907.
The short story commonly known as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" is titled The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. It was first published in the New York periodical The Saturday Press in November 1865.12