Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the 19th century writer’s career, was born from a significant event in his life. His writing style was a result of a newspaper job. Clemens stories originated from his childhood to his life experiences.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth child in the family of John and Jane Clemens. Mr. Clemens was a storekeeper and part time Lawyer, there was no information available for Jane Clemens. When Clemens was four years old, his family moved to nearby Hannibal, Missouri. Samuel suffered from poor health in his early years. By the age of nine, he seemed to recover from his ailments. Life in Hannibal, inspired several of Mark Twain’s fictional settings, including “St. Petersburg”in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. These imaginary river towns were all parts of Sam Clemens’s boyhood experience (Biography.com Editors).
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And, at age thirteen, Samuel left school to become a printer’s apprentice. At the age of fifteen, Clemens joined his brother Orion’s newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant. “It was here that young Samuel found he enjoyed writing” (Biography.com Editors). At seventeen, he left Hannibal behind for a printer’s job in St. Louis. While in St. Louis, Clemens’ pseudonym, Mark Twain, comes from his days as a river pilot. Then, in 1857, twenty-one-years-old Clemens fulfilled a dream of learning the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi. He was a licensed pilot by 1859 and soon found a regular employment plying the shoals and channels of the great river (The Official