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Also Known As	Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Samuel L. Clemens
Born	November 30, 1835 • Missouri
Died	April 21, 1910 (aged 74) • Connecticut
Awards And Honors	Hall of Fame (1920)
Notable Works	“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” • “A Tramp Abroad” • “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” • “Following the Equator” • “Letters from the Earth” • “Life on the Mississippi” • “Old Times on the Mississippi” • “Pudd’nhead Wilson” • “Roughing It” • “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” • “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” • “The Gilded Age” • “The Innocents Abroad” • “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” • “The Prince and the Pauper”
Movement / Style	frontier humour • local colour