Mark Twain was an American humorist, novelist, and ____. Mark Twain is the pen name of ____. Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in ____, Missouri. In 1848 Mark Twain became a printer’s apprentice for the Missouri Courier. Three years later his elder brother, Orion, bought the Hannibal Journal, and Twain began working for him as a ____. Occasionally, he contributed sketches and articles to the Journal. Some of his early sketches, such as “The Dandy Frightening the Squatter” (1852), circulated in local newspapers. During his lifetime Mark Twain wrote more than 20 novels. His most famous novels included The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which are loosely based on Twain’s boyhood experiences in Missouri. Twain also wrote numerous short stories, most notably ____ (1865). Mark Twain died on April 21, ____. The last piece of writing he did, evidently, was the short humorous sketch “Etiquette for the Afterlife: Advice to Paine.” The sketch was published posthumously in 1995.

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