The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Written by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

• Real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens
• Born Nov. 30, 1835
• In Florida, Missouri

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Mark Twain

• Died on April 21, 1910
• Father owned slaves
• I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware
  there was anything wrong with it.-Mark Twain

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More Twain

• Age 4 moved to Hannibal, Missouri
• Hannibal became the fictitious St. Petersburg in
  Huck Finn
• Took the name Mark Twain in the 1860s
• Samuel was the 5th child
• Father, John, died in his 40s
• Watched his fathers autopsy

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More Twain

• Samuel left school at age 12 to become a
  printers apprentice
• Become a riverboat pilot (lifelong ambition)
• 1861 outbreak of Civil War closed the Mississippi
  River
• Mark Twain means 2 fathoms, 12 feet, or safe water

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More Twain

• Enlisted in the Confederate army
• Left two weeks later
• Struck out for the west
• Ended up as a miner
• Started as a journalist
• Became a creative writer

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Family Life

• 1870 Married Olivia Langdon
• Had 4 children
• Langdon 1870-1871
• Susy 1872-1896
• Clara 1874-
• Jean 1880-1909
• Only child to outlive him was Clara
• Olivia died in 1904

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Famous Works

• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Prince and the Pauper

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For more about Huck, the book