Samuel Longhorn Clemens
- born on 30 November, 1835 in Florida, Missouri
- spent his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri
- his father died in 1847, therefore he stopped school and went into the world
- he learned type setting and worked as a printer in 1853
- at the age of 17 he returned to the West and became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi in 1857
- he began writing for a newspaper and adapted the pen name Mark Twain in 1863
- he worked as a journalist in Nevada and New York but had to travel constantly
- in may 1867 he published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and other scetches"
- married Olivia Langdon in 1870 and stayed married until her death in 1904; he fathered 3 daughters
- he was
devoted to writing and published 30 works of literature, for example:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875)
- The Prince and the Pauper
- A Connecticut Yankee
- In King Arthur's Court
- many of his works are timeless and have reached the top of American and world literature
- he wrote satires, historical fiction, short stories, nonfiction
- he died on 12 April, 1910 at Stormfield
Sources:
www.bartleby.com/65/tw/Twain-Ma.html.accessed on 12/19/2000
www.bartleby.com/227/0106.html.accessed on 12/19/2000
www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/6326/index.htm.accessed on 01/23/2001
