Mark Twain Biography
Mark Twain was born November 30, 1835, in Florida, MO. His father was John Marshall, a lawyer, and his mother was Jane (Lampton) Clemons. His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Florida was a small village of 21 houses. The village was located on the Salt River which would later become a metropolis. He later married Olivia Susan and then he made a small buisness there. Later they had a son who was named Samuel, a family name, and added Langhorne, after and old Virgina friend of his father. The child was small and did not make a very sturdy fight for life, but he still pushed on season after season. Later they had two stronger children, Margret and Benjamin. The judge of Florida lost all faith in the little town, so he moved his family to Hannibal, and in this Mississippi River town is where Mark Twain spent his early life.
He didn't go to school for very long. It ended one day in 1847, when his father died and it became necessary that each one should help somewhat in the domestic crisis. His brother Orion was a printer and his sister was in the music industries. He became a proffessional miner, but not a rich one. Clemens was walking along with little to nothing to eat and wear when a man offered him a local editorship of the Virginia City Enterprise. He would send in sketches every now and then. Late in the summer of 1862, he walked 130 miles over very bad roads to take that job. When he arrived he was wy-worn and travel stained. He began with a salary of $25 a week, picking up news items here and there, and contributing occasional sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, and the like. The name Makr Twain is a river tern used in making soundings, recalled from his piloting days. His articles were copied and commented on and he was known up and down the Pacific coast.
Twain switched to the Morning Call in San Francisco, but he wrote a daily letter for the Enterprise. Those letters were making trouble. They were making fun of the police officers of San Francisco so bad that the officials found means of making the writer's life there difficult and comfortless. On account of all his wrong doings he went up to a camp. He told a story about a jumping frog that was trained to jump , but he never won a wager. The story of the frog spread quickly through the camp and later died awat not lasting that long. As Twain was carrying pales of water for minners he was complaining about how each pail would be his last. Finally was said that he had had enough and he left that camp. The Jumping Frog did not die, paper printed and reprinted it and it was translated into foreign languages. Twain went on a boat tour and when we got back he found out that he was famous. He than made another book called Innocents Abroad. The book was published July 1869 and it was successful. He then recieved a check for four thousand dollars. The sales brought in more thanfifty thousand copies and had to increase.
Twain later decided to settle down. He worked in the Express of Buffals, NY, and lived in that city in a house presented to the young couple by Mr. Langdon. His baby boy, Langdon, died in 1872 at Hartford. In the en he wrote many books and short stories. Mark Twain was one of the greatest writers in the world.
I didn't know the Mark Twain had to go through all of that harship jst to get were he wanted to be. His story really tells you how hard the real wourld can be when noboday aprccieates you. Even though I have never read any of his books I would love to read one.
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