Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born in 1835, he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Twain loved the Mississippi River. He never went by his real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he always went by his pen name Mark Twain. His pen name was understood as “the river is two fathoms (twelve feet) deep.” Twain’s childhood experiences was always being on the Mississippi River. He was always visited different places around the world for the influencing of his writing. He visited five continents and crossed the Atlantic Ocean 29 times. (Prentice Hall 65). ” Mark Twain’s most important contribution to literature includes “Roughing It,” “Eve’s Diary,” and “Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
“Roughing It” is a semi-autobiographical travel literature. Twain wrote this book