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AUTHORS: Mark Twain |
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Mark Twain is actually Samuel
Clemens, who was born and grew up in Hannibal,
Missouri, in 1835. He quit school and worked as a
printer until 1857, when he gave it up to become a
steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. When the
Civil War put an end to river traffic, he went on to
work at several different jobs. The first time he
used the pseudonym ‘Mark Twain’ was to
sign a humorous travel letter in 1863. In 1870, he
was married to Olivia Langdon and settled in
Connecticut. This is the period that he wrote most of
his successful books. In 1894, he came into financial
troubles, and his daughter Suzy died. He died in
1910.
List Of Works: The Innocents Abroad - 1869 Roughing It - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Life on the Mississippi - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins - 1894 |