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How did Samuel Clemens become famous?

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Samuel Clemens was Mark Twain. He took the pen name of Mark Twain as a young man after he worked on a Mississippi steam boat and had to "mark twain" to tell the level of the water. He wrote Tom Sawyer and other books that are still read today.

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