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Literature's Rewards
From The (Charleston) News and Courier
25 April 1910
[Anonymous]
We are now told by one of Mark Twain's publishers that the author probably left a fortune of more than a million dollars. It is estimated that over 5,000,000 of the humorist's books have been published in America, and abroad he was the best known and most widely read of all contemporaneous American authors, his works having been translated into many tongues. The publisher quoted says that the books of no other author, living or dead, are selling more rapidly to-day and he also tells us that no other author received more per work for his stories or was paid higher royalties for them in book form.
Acceptable information this, not only because all of us loved Mark Twain and rejoice to know that his labors were substantially rewarded, but because it is gratifying to discover that it is possible for a man to make a million dollars honestly, and with a pen! It may be just as well to note, however, that it was not the desire to make money which caused Mark Twain to adopt literature as a career.
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