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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Samuel Clemens

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Samuel Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He may have died all the way back in the year of 1910, but he has still been a very influential man and author way passed his years of life. Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he made a few too many investments that went bad and became so far in debt that he was forced to declare bankruptcy in the year of 1894.

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