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Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3]
Apr 3, 2014 · Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of...
Jun 25, 2024 · Professor Emeritus of English, University of Missouri, Columbia. Author of Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination and editor of The Portable Mark Twain. Thomas V. Quirk. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Apr 5, 2010 · Learn about the life and works of Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, one of America's greatest writers. Explore his childhood, his travels, his humor, his novels and his legacy.
Mark Twain, orig. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn.), U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River and was apprenticed in 1848 to a local printer.
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- As a baby, he wasn’t expected to live. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born two months prematurely on November 30, 1835, in tiny Florida, Missouri, and remained sickly and frail until he was 7 years old.
- Twain’s formal education was limited. Twain at age 15. In 1848, the year after his father’s death, Clemens went to work full-time as an apprentice printer at a newspaper in Hannibal.
- His career as a riverboat pilot was marred by tragedy. In 1857, Clemens became an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. The following year, while employed on a boat called the Pennsylvania, he got his younger brother, Henry, a job aboard the vessel.
- Twain briefly served with a Confederate militia. Twain in 1870. In June 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, 25-year-old Clemens joined the Marion Rangers, a pro-Confederate militia.
Mark Twain. A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World: Samuel L. Clemens‚ 1835-1910. As Twain’s books provide insight into the past‚ the events of his personal life further demonstrate his role as an eyewitness to history.
