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Sign in to Harper'sMark Twain’s first article for Harper’s Magazine was misattributed to Mark Swain. The article, “Forty-three Days in an Open Boat” (December 1866), is an account of the Hornet, a clipper ship that caught fire in the open ocean, leaving its crew adrift for forty-three days. Twain referred to it as the “first magazine article I ever published,” though he had published numerous other pieces under such names as Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass; W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab; Rambler; Grumbler; and Peter Pencilcase’s…
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