Mark Twain is known as “The Father of American Literature”( Biography.com editors). Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth out of seven children born to John Marshall and Jane Clemens. At a very young age, Twain and his family moved to a nearby town by the name of Hannibal. Twain’s childhood was spent with memories of swimming, fishing and using his imagination. Due to his vast creativity, Twain was able to produce many interesting literary works and become an admirable writer in today's society.
At the age of four, he started attending school. There were no public schools in Missouri at the time, there were only private schools. Furthermore, there were only two of them. There
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Twain married the twenty-four year old daughter of a wealthy New York coal merchant by the name of Olivia or Livy Langdon in early 1870. Twain seemed to be really in love with Livy. After their wedding, Twain and Livy settled down in Buffalo and started a family of four children (Biography.com editors). Several of his various classics wrote during this time are: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The Gilded Age, Joan of Arc and many more. Mark Twain’s most famous works are none other than the two books Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain’s first most famous work is Adventures of Tom Sawyer which is the story of a very imaginative and a troublesome boy named Tom Sawyer, and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, where they witness a murder in a graveyard one night when they decide to sneak out. There’s this girl in Tom’s neighborhood by the name of Becky and he’s very infatuated with her. Finn, Sawyer, and Becky discover a cave where the murderer was hiding and they uncover a secret treasure that was hidden. Tom Sawyer from Adventures of Tom Sawyer states “A body does just the same in a dream as he’d do if he was awake” (Sawyer