Mark Twain. The short story, which is a retelling of an account provided to Twain by a bartender during the author's time in Angel's Camp, California, was published in the New York Saturday Press. Twain subsequently spent several years working at newspapers in Northern California and Nevada before moving back east, where he married and wrote many of his best-loved novels. Twain died in April, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut shortly after curiously predicting his own demise. In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" The famed comet passed closest to Earth the day prior to Twain's death.
Who was propelled to literary stardom following the publication of the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" today in 1865?
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Mark Twain. The short story, which is a retelling of an account provided to Twain by a bartender during the author's time in Angel's Camp, California, was published in the New York Saturday Press. Twain subsequently spent several years working at newspapers in Northern California and Nevada before moving back east, where he married and wrote many of his best-loved novels. Twain died in April, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut shortly after curiously predicting his own demise. In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" The famed comet passed closest to Earth the day prior to Twain's death.
Mark Twain. The short story, which is a retelling of an account provided to Twain by a bartender during the author's time in Angel's Camp, California, was published in the New York Saturday Press. Twain subsequently spent several years working at newspapers in Northern California and Nevada before moving back east, where he married and wrote many of his best-loved novels. Twain died in April, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut shortly after curiously predicting his own demise. In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" The famed comet passed closest to Earth the day prior to Twain's death.
