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SALT LAKE CITY — Not everyone has the distinction of being declared the "greatest humorist this country has produced" by The New York Times. On that front, Samuel Clemens' writings under the pseudonym Mark Twain solidified the writer as one of the most important figures in the American literary canon.
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