Mark Twain Satire

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri and grew up Hannibal, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River. Jane Lampton Clemens and John Marshall Clemens, Twain’s mother and father, had seven children with Mark being the sixth of seven. John Clemens, a lawyer, died in 1847 when Twain was just twelve years old. After his father’s death, he had to stop formal study and begin apprenticing for local newspapers. He eventually began to work for his brother, Orion Clemens, who owned multiple newspapers. After working with each other for a while, their business started failing and Twain left to start traveling. During that time, he wrote and published works that were mostly fiction

He then went back to work with Orion and they found a job in Nevada to pan for gold and silver. This was the basis for his volume Roughing It, which was completed in Hartford, Connecticut. While panning occasionally, he wrote comedic missives in Virginia City, but then fled to San Francisco to avoid a rival journalist. In San Francisco, he was known for his moralistic, though humorous, attacks against public figures and organizations. The way he viewed politics most definitely affected how and what he wrote. Twain’s writing style was mainly humor or satire, although some of his works reflected

He continued to write and publish a few other pieces, but none of them helped until he started another tour. This increased sales and secured his financial state once again. As Twain’s financial situation improved, his health and personal declined. Both Mark and Olivia were becoming sick. His daughter, Olivia Susan, contracted meningitis and died in 1896. The two decided to travel to Italy for a change after the death of their daughter and then officially moved to Florence. While there, Olivia died and another daughter passed after an epileptic seizure. Twain as forced to stop communicating with his other daughter after she had a nervous collapse. Mark Twain suffered from angina and died on April 21, 1910 near Redding,