Life of the Mark Twain
• Born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri • 6th of 7 children • In 1839,the family moved to Hannibal, a port town on the Mississippi River • In 1847, his father died. The next year Twain left school after the fifth grade, and finally go to the Mississippi River.
Mark Twain
an American Literary Giant
By:
Dongyi GeXutong ZhangXuechao Zhouwei
Samuel Langhorne Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April Clemens (November 30, , 21, 1910),better known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American author and humorist. He is most noted 1835 – The April 21, for his novel Adventures of 1910),better Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the known by his penNovel." name latter often called "the Great American Mark Twain, one of the greatest American writers, 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 called “The Great American Novel."