Yoo+Na+C.+-+I+am+Samuel+Langhorne+Clemens

My "I am..." person is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain. Prior to my research on Clemens, I did not know that this was the same person as Mark Twain or that he was the author of some of America's most recognized literature for young adults; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Apart from this, I did not know anything at all about Clemens and only recently discovered that he was born in the 1800s. While researching on Clemens, I had many questions about his social life because I did not find out much about his closest friends or rival writers. I also wondered about his other siblings because although many sources indicate that Clemens was from a fairly crowded family, only information about Clemens' older brother, Orion is displayed. My primary question is:


 * Why did Clemens come to have such a strong belief about dieing the same day Halley's Comet came nearest to earth again?**


 * Timeline**

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 * Primary Sources**

Document
Video Visual
 * =====[|Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, December 27, 1890]=====
 * [|The Hannibal Courier]
 * [|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
 * [|Chapter 9]

Quotes

 * ====="The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug,"=====
 * =====[|The Quotable Mark Twain]=====
 * "Be good & you will be lonesome."
 * [|Twain Quotations A to Z]
 * "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
 * [|Top 15 Quotes by Famous Atheists]
 * "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."
 * [|Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)]


 * Secondary Sources**

Documents Visual Quotes
 * [|Secondary Sources on Mark Twain]
 * [|Overbooking Halley's Comet]
 * [|Mark Twain]
 * [|No Humor in Heaven]
 * "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go together."
 * [|Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)]