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Olivia Susan Clemens (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896) was the second child and eldest daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. She inspired some of her father's works, at 13 wrote her own biography of him, which he later published in his autobiography, and acted as a literary ...
Jean Clemens was born in Elmira, New York, the youngest of four children born to author and humorist Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon Clemens. Twain wrote from Elmira to his friend, William Dean Howells, reporting she "arrived perfectly sound but with no more baggage than I had when I was on the river," referring to his Life On The Mississippi. [1 ...
The Clemens family is an American literary family, ... Mark Twain (7 C, 45 P) ... Susy Clemens; T. Mark Twain
Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, pictured at age 85 in 1959 in San Diego, California. When Clara died in 1962 at age 88, Samossoud had blown through assets that had at one time been valued ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ."
Clemens wrote the story after receiving a request from actress Minnie Maddern Fiske to assist in her drive against bullfighting. [2] Harper's published the story as a 153-page book in October 1907. [2] Clemens's daughter Susy Clemens, who died in 1896 at age 24 of spinal meningitis, is understood to be the inspiration for lead character Cathy ...
In the mid-1800s, long before he took on the pen name Mark Twain, Clemens and his young pals romped around the cave near the Mississippi River on the outskirts of Hannibal. As a group of Twain ...
Clara Clemens (1874–1962), concert singer and Mark Twain's only surviving child and widow of Ossip Gabrilowitsch; Jean Clemens (1880–1909), Mark Twain's youngest daughter; Olivia Langdon Clemens (1845–1904), Mark Twain's wife and editor; Susy Clemens (1872–1896), Mark Twain's eldest daughter and a biographer of him