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I'm not sure exactly when but Mark Twain was the first stand up comedian and he lived between November 30th, 1835 and April 21st ,1910 and he began doing it later in his life after his writing career.
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J.K. Rowling began writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1990. She completed the first draft in 1995 and began working to get it published. It was first published in June 1997.
Mark Twain was supposedly the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript to his publisher.
Writing first began in Mesopotamia around 3200 BCE with the development of cuneiform script by the Sumerians. This early form of writing enabled the recording of information on clay tablets.
somewhere between the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution(1860-1940)
Mark Twain was one of the first novelists to use a typewriter, which he purchased in 1874. He praised the machine for its efficiency and convenience in his writing process.
The first record of Chinese writing is on oracle bones from the Shang dynasty. Written Chinese probably began with pictographs and ideographs.
Technically, she began writing in 1894, on her trip and move from De Smet, SD to Mansfield, MO. Her Missouri Ruralist writing carrer pretty much began in 1911. Her "book" writing began with her first memoir, that wasn't never published, in 1930. So, it depends on which "writing - topic" you are referring to.
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