Who is Mark Twain

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Who is Mark Twain
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Who is Mark Twain

• Mark Twain was born in Missouri and died on April
  21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut. He was an
  American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and
  novelist who became famous around the world for
  his travel writing, especially The Innocents
  Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on
  the Mississippi (1883), and for his stories about
  boyhood adventures, especially The Adventures of
  Tom (1885). 

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Youth

• Samuel Clemens was born two months early and had
  bad health for the first ten years of his life.
  He was the six child of John Marshall and Jane
  Lampton Clemens. During those early years, his
  mother tried different allopathic and hydropathic
  treatments on him. His memories of those times,
  along with other memories from his childhood,
  would end up in Tom Sawyer and other works.
  Because he was sick, Clemens was often coddled,
  especially by his mother.

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Business Failures

• If Clemens got his sense of humour from anyone,
  it would have been from his mother and not from
  his father. All accounts say that John Clemens
  was a serious man who rarely showed affection.
  Theres no doubt that his mood was affected by
  his worries about money, which were made worse by
  a string of business failures.
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Romantic Dreamer

• Clemens was a romantic dreamer, and thats why he
  liked to think about his childhood in Hannibal so
  much. In Old Times on the Mississippi, a book
  he wrote in 1875. He wrote that the village was a
  white town sleeping in the sunshine of a summer
  morning until a riverboat came along and made it
  a busy place. A young boy would have been
  impressed by the gamblers, stevedores, and
  pilots, as well as the loud rafts men and elegant
  travelers. They were all going somewhere
  glamorous and exciting, which would have sparked
  his already active imagination.

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Accident

• Clemens wasnt on the ship when the accident
  happened, but he thought it was his fault. His
  time as a cub and then as a full-fledged pilot
  taught him discipline and direction in a way that
  he might not have learned anywhere else. After
  only two weeks, during which the soldiers mostly
  ran away from rumors that Union troops were
  nearby, the group broke up. Some of the men
  joined other Confederate units, but most of them,
  including Clemens, went their separate ways.

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New York Newspapers

• He was already getting known outside the
  territory. Some of his articles and sketches had
  been published in New York newspapers, and he was
  hired by the San Francisco Morning Call to cover
  Nevada. He moved from Virginia City to San
  Francisco and started working full-time for the
  Call. When he got tired of that work, he started
  writing for the Golden Era and Bret Hartes new
  literary magazine, the Californian.