Samuel Langhorne Clemens, commonly known to the world by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American writer that has had a lasting impact on the world. Clemens has influenced not only readers from his time period, but readers in today’s current society, as well. Samuel Clemens was also an entrepreneur, riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, and inventor (“Mark Twain”). Aside from the well-written, along with popular, books by Mark Twain, this accomplished man has a great story behind his life, from the day he was born to the day he died. Samuel was born on November 30th, 1835. He was born in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children his mother beared. Nonetheless, only three of the seven children outlived his mother’s life. His mother’s …show more content…
In 1861, he boarded a stagecoach towards California. Clemens made the decision to travel to this location in search for silver and gold. By the year of 1862, he began to realize that he would not be successful in this mission; furthermore, he was completely broke and also jobless. To earn money, Samuel Clemens went to work for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. It was at this newspaper office that Samuel Clemens came up with a new name when writing his creations, Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens had finally found a stable career at this point and his life began to get better. Mark Twain became one of the most well-known writers in the West. This is because his pieces were humerus to readers. At the age of 34, Samuel Clemens, better known to the world as Mark Twain, had become one of the most popular and famous writers in all of the United States.
Although Mark Twain was socially praised and accepted, he was not satisfied. It had been his desire to gain wealth and importance, but, what he wanted most was to be respectfully regarded by the high Eastern civilization. This is because the people of the East were described to have a higher class rank on the social status spectrum than Westerners did during Twain’s time