Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William
Twain in 1907
Samuel Clemens, age 15 holding metal type in a composing stick that spells out his first name. As a daguerreotype, whose creation involved no intermediate negative, the image is laterally reversed. Hence the type, which, in actuality, was backward, is readable, though Twain himself is flipped.
Twain, age 31
(From l. to r.) American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, Mark Twain and David Gray, editor of the rival Buffalo Courier
Olivia Langdon Clemens
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Olivia Langdon Clemens was the wife of the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain.
Olivia (1869; age 23)
A statue of Olivia Clemens was erected on the Elmira College campus, a gift of the Class of 2008.
Graves of Olivia Langdon Clemens and Mark Twain.