|
Mark Twain(1835 - 1910) |
|
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (later known as Mark Twain) was an
extraordinary man. He was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30,
1835. At two and a half years old, he and his family moved to Hannibal,
a much bigger town with many more business opportunities. There, he grew
up with one brother, one sister, and a slave named Jenny. He went to
elementary school in Hannibal. In 1847, his father died, and Samuel
dropped out of school to keep his father's business alive. He and his
brother worked in his father's store until 1853 when he left for New
York. There, he worked in the first printing press of his life. He
worked in that press for many years learning the different ways to do
things. In 1861, he got his own steamboat and learned to pilot it. He
went through many dangerous rapids. He then joined a group of people
that wanted to fight with the Confederate Army in the Civil War, but then
dropped out after a couple of weeks. He then got in his boat and went
north, barely making it before they closed it off. then the Union Army
took his boat to use in the war. In his later life, he became Chancellor
of Oxford University. He died April 10, 1910. Throughout his entire
life, he had been writing and learning.
Mark Twain did many things other than just write. He was a very good steamboat captain. He had his own steamboat that he would ride around in for fun all the time. He was known to go through very hard areas of water rapids. He was well-known not only for writing, but boating too. Mark Twain got his ideas for his books from many different places. He lived a very busy live and traveled to many different places. Most of his ideas came from all the different places he had gone and things that he had done. "My uncle, John A. Quarles, was a farmer, and his place was in the country four miles from Florida...his farm has come very handy to me in literature, once or twice." When you read his works, you can sometimes imagine the place he is talking about in real life, because it probably was real place. All of his different travels brought him upon people and places that all inspired him to write. In the final few years of his life, he became Chancellor of Oxford University. He became extremely well-known for all his accomplishments throughout his life. He won many awards. Even to this day, people can read his works and relate to them. by - Pearl |
|
The Books of Mark Twain |
|
 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Related Links |
|
| Net 4 TV. com A great source for me. It contains a longer and more thorough biography of Twain | |
| Another Good Site Very helpful in my research | |
