Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens was born in 1835 in Missouri and grew up at Hannibal, on the Mississippi. An apprentice printer after his father's death, he became a steamboat pilot, a trade that would give him his pen name, tried his luck in the silver mines of Nevada, then lived from journalism and lecturing. He married the daughter of a wealthy merchant and settled in Connecticut. Ruined by a typesetting machine and by his publishing house, in 1895 he set out on a world tour to repay his creditors, and succeeded. He lost his wife and three of his four children, and died in 1910.

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• NovelThe Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · 1876LiteraturePublic domain