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    Who used the pen name Mark Twain before Samuel Clemens?

    Question #1250. Asked by jpc. (Apr 14 00 4:43 PM)


    dave_fl

    		MARK TWAIN ... This name is after a Mississippi River term meaning two fathoms deep. This was unheard of as a name until he used it, and became famous.

    Apr 15 00, 11:23 AM
    zbeckabee

    		Isaiah Sellers, a noted steamboat captain who was the first writer, according to Sam Clemens, to use the pen name "Mark Twain" in a series of newspaper contributions to papers in New Orleans and St. Louis. However, diligent searches of newspaper microfilm files by scholars over the past decades have failed to turn up any articles Sellers may have written using the name "Mark Twain."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Sellers

    http://www.twainquotes.com/Steamboats/Sellers.html

    Jan 22 08, 10:06 PM

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