MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

assess Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Four years later, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, the fictionalized St. Petersburg of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Dawson's Landing of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894). As a youth, Twain learned the printer's trade, but in 1857 he fulfilled his boyhood dream of becoming a steamboat pilot. After the Civil War (1861-1865) ended commercial steamboat traffic on the Lower Mississippi River, he spent the next five years (1861-1866) as a miner and journalist in California and the Nevada Territory, an experience he ...