MARK TWAIN DEAD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10026, 23 April 1910, Page 5

MARK TWAIN DEAD.

AMERICA'S &RKAT HUMORIST. Unitfsd Press Association—By Electn'o Telegraph Copyright Received April 22, 5 p.m. NEW YORK, April 22. Mark Twain died at his home in Redding, Connecticut, this evening, aged 75 years.

I Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Lanphorne Clemens, was regarded as America's greatest humorist, and as novelist, journalist lecturer, his name was known throughout the civilised world. He was born at Florida, Missouri, on November 30tb, 1835. At thirteen years of aj>e he became a primer, beginning in the West. At twenty he was for a short while a piht on the Mississippi river, and afterwards went to California as a reporter. He also edited a newspaper in Buffalo, and with Brete Harte wrote for the old "Caljfnrniao." Among his best known books are The Jumping Frog, 1867; The Innocents Abroad. 1869; The Innocents at Home; The Gilded Age, , 1873, with C. D. Warner; Roughing It, 1872; Sketches New and Old. 1873; Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 3876: Punch Brothers, Punch, 1878; A Tramp Abroad, 1880; The Prince and the Pauper, !«80; The b'tolen White Elephant, 1882; Life on the Mississippi, 1883; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885; A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1889; The American Claimant, 1892; The £1,000.000 Bank Note, 1893; Puddinhead Wilson, 1894; Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894; Joan of Arc, 1896; More Tramps Abroad, 1897; The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg. 1900; Christian Science, 1907.