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MARK TWAIN During the late 1800's and early 1900's there lived a great American author m the name of Mark Twain. Unlike many other authors, Twain was popular while he was alive as well not only for writing, but for being a platform lecturer as well.Quit often he wrote in a romantic comedy to keep his audience entertained. During the year 1873 Twain worked with Charles Dudley Warner, an editor from Harper's magazine, to write a famous model by the name of the Gilded age. The period before the war was described as the gilded age because Twain captured the era so well in his novel. Supposedly the greatest novel he gifted to american literature was the Gilded Age because of the way he captured the frontier realism, and gave the characters a certain sense of humor. The Gilded Age was described as an era of serious social problem that where masked by a thin gold gilding.    

"Mark Twain Biography." The Biography.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 4  Nov. 2015. .