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May 27, 2024 · Famous People & Pens
Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, owned this house with his wife Livy in Hartford, Conn. Way back in 2013 I wrote a post called “Was Mark Twain the First Pen Pitchman?“. It was the oft repeated story about how author Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, advertised his support…
November 18, 2013 · Famous People & Pens
American author Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, was the spokesman for the Conklin Pen Company in 1903. Samuel Clemens, better known to lovers of classic American literature as Mark Twain, was possibly the first famous person used to sell a specific make and model of pen. Twain was the writer…
