| Mark Twain (1835–1910)Beinhaltet die Namen: Tven M., Tven Mark, Mark Tven, Mark Twain, Mark Twains, Mark] [Twain, Mr. Mark Twain, מרק טוין, pseud. Mark Twain, Марк Твен ... (ganze Liste ansehen), Марк Твен, Samuel L. Clemens, מאַרק טװײן, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, マーク・トウェン, マーク トウェイン, マーク トウェーン, Марк Твен, псевд., Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), Марк (Mark) Твен (Tven), psevd. for Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain Beinhaltet auch: Samuel Clemens (1) 156,439 (175,138) | 2,115 | 30 | (3.87) | 666 | 0 | Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn … (mehr) |
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Mark Twain hat 48 vergangene Veranstaltungen. (show)  Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novels All the Light We Cannot See and About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. (hinzugefügt von Simon & Schuster)… (mehr)
 Vintage Views Along Scenic M-22 including Sleeping Bear Dunes Join us for the book launch for local authors M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson's fifth title: Vintage Views Along Scenic M-22 including Sleeping Bear Dunes. The book follows a trail of vacationers and travelers along one of Michigan's most scenic roads, from Manistee County to the Leelanau Peninsula. Vintage postcards, photographs, maps and advertisements illustrate a time when M-22 first beckoned motorists to come north to the land of beautiful beaches and sand dunes, lakes and rivers, forests and woodlands, farms and orchards. You'll stop at lighthouses and life saving stations, take a trip in a dunesmobile, fish for Mackinaw trout, and shop for souvenirs. You'll visit state parks and learn how Sleeping Bear Dunes became a National Lakeshore. A book signing will follow the presentation. (abridle)… (mehr)
 Dan Fagin -- Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Toms River by Dan FaginAuthor Event This evening we welcome Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin as he'll be here to discuss his award winning book Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. (hinzugefügt von Barnes & Noble)
 The RECOMMENDED BY A STRANGER BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. Burlingame The RECOMMENDED BY A STRANGER BOOK CLUB will discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain. Location: Books Inc. Street: 1375 Burlingame Ave City: Burlingame, Province: California Country: United States (hinzugefügt von IndieBound)
 Janette Turner Hospital: Morning Tea Janette Turner Hospital is one of Australia’s most respected authors, with eight novels and four short-story collections to her name. A resident of South Carolina now, she has taught fiction at universities across the world, and her work has won numerous international prizes. Janette’s latest novel is The Claimant. The story revolves around the real-life case of the search for the heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. In 1996 a court case was launched in New York that drew enormous media attention. Its aim was to establish if the long-presumed dead son of the Vanderbilt family was in fact living incognito as a cattle farmer in Queensland. Exploring the elusive nature of identity, The Claimant is sure to be one of the most talked-about releases of the year.
In an appropriately mid-morning appearance at the Wheeler Centre, Janette Turner Hospital will discuss her new book over morning tea. A great opportunity to share a cuppa with one of the giants of Australian literature.
Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital is the author of eight novels and four short story collections, most recently Forecast: Turbulence. Her books have been published in multiple languages.
Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. Her most recent book is By the Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life, published by Text in November 2012. She presents The Monthly Book Podcast and blogs at ramonakoval.com.
She edited Best Australian Essays 2012, published by Black Inc. Books, and was the presenter of ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. (rodneyvc)… (mehr)
 Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Created in darkness by troubled Americans, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zeitoun, A Tramp Abroad, While mortals sleep, The wild things, Away We Go, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?) Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. (hinzugefügt von Random House)… (mehr)
 Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Created in darkness by troubled Americans, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zeitoun, A Tramp Abroad, While mortals sleep, The wild things, Away We Go, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?) Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. (hinzugefügt von Random House)… (mehr)
 Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Created in darkness by troubled Americans, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zeitoun, A Tramp Abroad, While mortals sleep, The wild things, Away We Go, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?) Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. (hinzugefügt von Random House)… (mehr)
 Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Created in darkness by troubled Americans, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zeitoun, A Tramp Abroad, While mortals sleep, The wild things, Away We Go, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?) Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. (hinzugefügt von Random House)… (mehr)
 Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, Created in darkness by troubled Americans, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Zeitoun, A Tramp Abroad, While mortals sleep, The wild things, Away We Go, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?) Dave Eggers grew up near Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney’s publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. In 2002, he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing and tutoring center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Sister centers have since opened in seven other American cities under the umbrella of 826 National, and like-minded centers have opened in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Birmingham, Alabama, among other locations. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family. (hinzugefügt von Random House)… (mehr)
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Gebräuchlichste Namensform | | Rechtmäßiger Name | | Andere Namen | | Geburtsdatum | | Todestag | | Begräbnisort | | Geschlecht | | Nationalität | | Land (für Karte) | | Geburtsort | | Sterbeort | | Todesursache | | Wohnorte | | Ausbildung | | Berufe | | Beziehungen | | Organisationen | | Preise und Auszeichnungen | | Agenten | | Kurzbiographie | Mark Twain, (das Pseudonym von Samuel Langhorne Clemens), amerikanischer Schriftstellerr, geboran am 30. November 1835 in Florida, Missouri. Sein Vater war ein Händler aus Tennessee, der bald nach der Geburt seines Sohnes nach Hannibal, Missouri umzog, einer kleinen Stadt am Mississippi. Als der Junge zwölf Jahre alt war, starb sein Vater, und er mußte sich um seine weitere Ausbildung nach Möglichkeit selbst kümmern. Er hatte wenig eigentliche Schulbildung. Er erlernte den Schriftsatz und wanderte als reisender Drucker weit herum, erreichte im Osten New York. Mit siebzehn kehrte er an den Mississipp zurücki, entschlossen, Lotse auf einem Dampfer zu werden. Doch der Ausbruch des Bürgerkriegs 1861 machte dieser Tätigkeit ein Ende. Nach kurzer Unsicherheit zog der junge Mann westwärts mit seinem Bruder, der zum stellvertretenden Gouverneur von Nevada ernannt worden war. Er ging für eine Saison in die Bergwerke und begann dort für die Lokalzeitungen zu schreiben, wobei er das Pseudonym "Mark Twain" annahm, das sich von einem Ruf bei Tiefenlotungen auf Misisippidampfern herleitete. Schließlich verschlug es ihn nach San Francisco, und eine Zeitung dieser Stadt stellte ihm 1867 das Geld zur Verfügung, um sich einer Reisegesellschaft auf einem gecharterten Dampfschiff ins Mittelmeer anzuschließen. Die Briefe, die er während dieser Reise schrieb, wurden1869 unter dem Titel "The Innocents Abroad" zusammengefaßt, und das Buch erlangte weite und anhaltende Beliebtheit. This popularity was of service to him when he appeared on the platform with a lecture--or rather with an apparently informal talk, rich in admirably delivered anecdote. He edited a daily newspaper in Buffalo for a few months, and in 1870 he married Miss Olivia L. Langdon, removing a year later to Hartford, where he established his home. He made a second visit to Europe and started a publishing firm in New York, himself a chief partner. But after a severe struggle the publishing house failed, leaving the author charged with its very heavy debts. After this disaster he went on a tour round the world, partly to make money by lecturing and partly to get material for another book of travels. In 1900, having paid off all the debts of his old firm, he returned to America. He had a great reception in England in 1907, when he went over to receive from Oxford the degree of Doctor of Literature. He died at Redding, Connecticut, on the 21st of April 1910. Of his four children, only one survived him.  | |
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