Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature.

Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton. As a new born Twain already had moved four times westward. In 1839 the family moved again, this time eastward to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a frontier town of less than 500 residents. As small as the town was it offered valuable materials and opportunities for a young writer. Most of the residents knew Samuel well, considering they were on the lower half of the social scale, such as poor whites and slaves.

The town of Hannibal was mostly used for farmers coming in from the countryside. It was also a river town, swamped with travelers moving up stream and down stream. Some of the travelers

Although Clemens had a remarkable financial success with all of the books he had wrote, he found himself bankrupt by 1894. After the death of his daughter in 1896 and his wife in 1904 he became incredibly bitter and needed to express his feelings in some way so he wrote a book called The Mysterious Stranger

Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, he ended the brief period of his schooling to become a printer's apprentice. Like many nineteenth century authors, he was preparing for his writing career later in life. Working as a Printer's apprentice he got practice as a typesetter and miscellaneous reading. The first thing Samuel wrote as a used piece was a few skits for his brothers Orion's Hannibal newspaper and a sketch, for The Dandy Frightening The Squatter, published in Boston in 1852. The first real book ever published by Mark Twain was Life on the Mississippi River.

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