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Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.

Samuel Clemens Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida

He spent his boyhood in the small town of Hannibal on the great Mississippi river.

In 1847, when Samuel was eleven, his father died and the boy had to leave school and look for work.

For ten years he worked as a printer.

In 1857 he found a job on a boat and travelled up and down the Mississippi. This is where he got his pen-name “Mark Twain” (mark two).

Later the young man went to Nevada where silver had been discovered Later the young man went to Nevada where silver had been discovered. He worked as a miner for some time there.

Mark Twain, appeared in print for the first time in 1863. He became a journalist. The writer’s pen-name, Mark Twain, appeared in print for the first time in 1863.

In February 1870 Samuel Langhorne Clemens married Olivia Langdon

The married couple had 3 daughters: Susy, Clara and Jean.

The most famous novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

In 1907 Oxford University awarded Twain an honorary doctorate in letters.

Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910