Mark Twain
“Mark
Twain” is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on
November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was a famous American author
and is known for humor put in his work. The two accredited work of him
are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” in 1876 and “The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn” in 1885.
Childhood
Mark
Twain was the son of mother Jane, a native of Kentucky, and father John
Marshall Clemens, a Virginian by birth. When he was 4, family moved to
Hannibal, Missouri a port town on the Mississippi River. Hannibal
inspired him to create the fictional town of St. Petersburg in his two
famous works.
Education
In
1847, the death of Mark Twain’s father lead him to become a printer's
apprentice, the very next year. In 1851, he began working as a
typesetter and also contributed articles and humorous sketches for the
Hannibal Journal. He left Hannibal at the age of 18, and worked as a
printer in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. Later
he joined International Typographical Union (the printers’ union) and
kept indulged in public libraries at evening to educate himself.
Career
Most
of Mark Twain’s work came while he had been on traveling expeditions.
From 1857, he became pilot of a steamboat on a voyage to New Orleans
down the Mississippi. He studied this region and scribbled his thoughts
in “Life on the Mississippi”. Later in 1861, he moved to silver mining
town of Virginia City working as a miner that inspired him to write
“Roughing It”, and his experiences in Angels Camp, California in
Calaveras County was enough to write "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County" noted as best humorous literature work and gave him
national attention when it got published in New York Weekly in 1965.
During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he got published his
compiled work “The Innocents Abroad”, a popular collection of travel
letters. His travelogues were popular and became the basis for his
initial lectures.
At the End
In
1906, Mark Twain began writing his autobiography in the North American
Review. In 1907, Oxford University awarded Twain an honorary doctorate
in Letters. On 21st April, 1910, Twain died of a heart attack in
Redding, Connecticut, one day after Hailey comet's closest approach to
Earth.
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