Mark Twain

Americans1800s1900s
Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  • Confederate soldier

  • Close friends with Ulysses S. Grant; claimed to be “Grant intoxicated”

  • Encouraged President Grant to write his memoir before he died. Later said “I think the book kept him alive several months.”

  • On the invention of the telephone: "The voice already carries entirely too far as it is… If Bell had invented a muffler or a gag [he'd] have done a real service" He still convinced his boss at the newspaper to get a telephone for the newsroom. And he installed two phones at his house.

Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

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