MARK TWAIN
(1835–1910)
In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as
Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri. He later moved to the town of
Hannibal on the Mississippi River. He adopted the name Mark Twain from his days
as a river man on Mississippi River steamboats. It is said that the term “mark
twain” referred to a certain measurement of safe water. He traveled extensively
around the United States, finding work as a typesetter, prospector, and
journalist. In 1865, he published a tall tale called “The Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County” under the name Mark Twain. Twain is best known for his tales
of the Mississippi River adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn
(1884), stories that continue to stir up controversy a hundred years after they
were written.
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