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Mark Twain  

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  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens, before taking his familiar pen name, Mark Twain, began his writing career as a newspaper reporter and traveling correspondent. He achieved national prominence in 1866 when, just 30 years old, he spent 4 months in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawai'i) composing satirically politicized articles for the Sacramento Union; these pieces were reprinted in newspapers across the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Twain, Mark (1835–1910)]

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