His disastrous investment in the Paige typesetting machine was the end of a business career started well when his Charles L. Webster Company published Ulysses Grant's memoirs.  
During the latter part of his life he received much criticism for organizing a club solely for schoolgirls, the Angelfish Club.  His disastrous investment in the Paige typesetting machine was the end of a business career started well when his Charles L. Webster Company published Ulysses Grant's memoirs.  Thus he was forced to continue writing, releasing such works as Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The American Claimant, and a tale of mixed identity in Dawson's Landing, Pudd'nhead Wilson.  FTP, name this American who also wrote the travelogues Innocents Abroad and Roughing It and novels about Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
During the latter part of his life he received much criticism for organizing a club solely for schoolgirls, the Angelfish Club.  
Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)