Famous Authors (Men)

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E. F. Harkins. Famous Authors (Men)

Famous Authors (Men)

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PREFACE

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

BRET HARTE

MARK TWAIN

"LEW" WALLACE

GEORGE W. CABLE

HENRY JAMES

FRANCIS RICHARD STOCKTON

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

S. WEIR MITCHELL

ROBERT GRANT

F. MARION CRAWFORD

JAMES LANE ALLEN

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

HAMLIN GARLAND

PAUL LEICESTER FORD

ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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E. F. Harkins

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Mark Twain's real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. There is a story to the effect that one of his ancestors, by name Gregory Clement, an adherent of Cromwell, added his voice to the condemnation of Charles I. and was beheaded for it by Charles II. However, it is neither as Clement nor as Clemens that the most celebrated of contemporaneous American authors is, or has been, popularly known, but by the pen-name of Mark Twain, which he adopted when he was piloting on the Mississippi, more than forty years ago.

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