id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6399 Mark Twain - Wikipedia .html text/html 15778 1647 77 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. After she rejected his first marriage proposal, they were married in Elmira, New York in February 1870,[32] where he courted her and managed to overcome her father's initial reluctance.[36] She came from a "wealthy but liberal family"; through her, he met abolitionists, "socialists, principled atheists and activists for women's rights and social equality", including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and utopian socialist writer William Dean Howells,[37] who became a long-time friend. It was in these days that Twain became a writer of the Sagebrush School; he was known later as its most famous member.[81] His first important work was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Foner, Mark Twain: Social Critic (New York: International Publishers, 1958), p. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6399.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6399.txt