Mark Twain

* Born: 30 November 1835
* Birthplace: Florida, Missouri
* Died: 21 April 1910 (heart failure)
* Best Known As: The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Name at birth: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Mark Twain is on nearly everyone's list of all-time great American authors. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri and as a young man held a series of jobs which included work as a printer's apprentice, a Mississippi riverboat pilot, and a newspaperman in Nevada and San Francisco. He moved gradually from journalism to travel writing and then to fiction, aided by the success of his 1869 travel memoir The Innocents Abroad. His humorous tales of human nature, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1885), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes. In his own day Twain was a tremendously popular figure and a celebrated public speaker who toured widely. Other Twain classics include Life on the Mississippi (1883) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867).

Twain was born and died in years in which Halley's Comet passed by Earth: 1835 and 1910... His pseudonym, Mark Twain, was taken from Mississippi riverboat terminology; it's a measure of depth... Twain married the former Olivia Langdon in 1870; she died in 1904, and the melancholy tone of Twain's later writings is often attributed to his depression over her death.

How did Mark Twain get his name?
Samuel Clemens changed his name to Mark Twain because of his experiences of being on a riverboat. The captain of the riverboat yelled out "Mark twain!" which meant to check the water level beneath...
Did mark twain or Mark Twain's family have slaves?
No, in fact, Mark Twain's wife was an abolitionist.
Mark Twain was a?
Mark Twain was a writer (he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn).
Why did Samuel Clemens use the pen name Mark Twain?
Mark twain is a term used in steam boat piloting. It means the water is 13 Mark Twain's dream job was to be a pilot of a steam boat so he used the term as his pen name. He got famous after he used it...
Name a Mark Twain novel?
His most famous would be "The adventures of Tom Sawyer"There is also huckleberryfin