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As a young man Twain worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. When he started his writing career, Samuel Clemens adopted the name “Mark Twain,” which meant two fathoms, a safe depth for a riverboat.
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At 34 years of age he married Olivia Langdon Clemens. She was the daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the country’s wealthy elite. She would be partner, editor, and fellow traveler in success and failure for the next thirty-five years. She would also furnish him her family’s home in Elmira, New York, a place where he visited often and wrote many of his best-loved books.
Mark Twain
an American Literary Giant
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called “The Great American
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Life of the Mark Twain
• Born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri
• 6th of 7 children
• In 1839,the family
moved to Hannibal,
known by his pen name its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the
latter often called "the Great American Novel."
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In 1861, Samuel Clemens avoided the brewing Civil War by going west. He took his first writing job as reporter at the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
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Because of financial problems, Clemens lived in Europe from 1891-1901, but this was neither his first nor last trip abroad. In fact, he was an inveterate traveler. From the age of 17 to the last few weeks of his life he was always discovering new places and revisiting old. He crisscrossed the Atlantic more than a dozen times and also saw Turkey, Palestine, Hawaii, Australia, India, and South Africa.
Serious news was often mixed with “reports” that had to be taken with a grain of salt. Soon, he began using the name Mark Twain and affixing it to sketches, reportage, and an occasional hoax. It was a time when he first discovered his talent, his calling, and his voice.
humorist, essayist, novelist
and adventurer. He is most
noted for his novel The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(1876) and its sequel,
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn (1885), the latter often
