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Russ Crawford , Samuel Clemens, or None of the Above? was one of the most popular and well-known authors of the 1800’s. He is recognized for being a humorist. He used humor or social satire in his best works. His writing is known for “realism ....

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... was sixteen, Clemens began setting type for the local newspaper Hannibal Journal, which his older brother Orion managed ( 1). In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army ( 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym , a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep” (Bloom 43). In 1865, Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the Calif ...