November 30, 1835 Mark Twain had came into this world. Mark Twain was a child of seven children, but sadly he had lost three of his siblings throughout his childhood. Also a little fun fact about Mark is that he never went up school in his childhood years. He would just go to the library. Something scary about his childhood was that he nearly drowned nine times in his teen years. His death date was also a sad day, but eventually that day had happened and it was April 21, 1910.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens or known as Mark Twain is the author I chose. Mark Twain was considered America’s most famous literary icon. Samuel found his interest and enjoyed writing when he joined his brother Orion’s newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant. Mark
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Also something interesting about his career is that he was a riverboat pilot. The most interesting part was that he had made about $150-250 a month just being on the river. Another thing i didn't know that he was in the civil war, but the weirdest thing is that he had made a militia. Do you ever think that a person that never went to school like do know be able to cause a war?
In 1865, Sam’s “big break” came with the publication of his short story, “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” in papers across the country. A year later, Sam was hired by the Sacramento Union to visit and report on the Sandwich Islands. His writing were so popular that, upon his return he embarked upon his first lecture tour, which established him as a successful stage performer.
In 1871, Mark moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut, city he had come to love while visiting his publisher there, and where he had made friends. Livy also had family connections to the city. For the first few years the Clemenses rented a house in the heart of Nook Farm, a residential area that was home to numerous writers, publisher and other prominent figures. In 1872, Mark Twain recollection and tall tales from his frontier adventures were published in his book, Roughing
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During those years Sam completed some of his most famous books‚ often finding a summer refuge for uninterrupted work at his sister-in-law’s farm in Elmira‚ N.Y. Novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Life on the Mississippi(1883) captured both his Missouri memories and depictions of the American scene. Yet‚ his social commentary continued. The Prince and the Pauper (1881) explored class relations as does A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) which‚ going a step further‚ criticized oppression in general while examining the period’s explosion of new technologies. And‚ in perhaps his most famous work‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain’s (1884)‚ Twain ‚ by the way he attacked the institution of slavery‚ railed against the failures of Reconstruction and the continued poor treatment of African Americans in his own