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Mark Twain Fernando Vallejo this is one of thePulitzer Prize winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain Ron Chernow, the highly lauded biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant, brings his considerable powers to bear on Americas first, and most influential, literary celebrity, Mark Twain. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, under Halleys Comet,