MARK
TWAIN
Born in
Florida, Missouri in 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as MARK TWAIN, would start a life that would
be filled with great satire short stories. When he was a boy, His life was
filled with adventure and curiosity. He would wander through the woods and
write down what he saw. After a while he started to work for his brother as a
writer for one of his papers, Orion Clemens. He would then submit his first
known writing to a Boston magazine. The piece was called Carpet-Bag.
Twain would then start to travel up down the Mississippi river, stopping
here and there to submit writings to local newspapers while he is on his
travels. Twain enjoyed this so much that he got his own pilot’s license. His
adventures would come to an end when the Civil War was happening. Twain then
decided to join the Confederate Army for a brief stint. Years later, he would
travel along the western part of the country for a few years contributing
stories such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. After that, he
would get on a boat that would take him to Europe and the middle east. During
this travel he would compile and complete his book The Innocents Abroad.
Over the next years he would publish stories such as The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer. He died in 1910 at the age of 75. Still today people can’t get
enough of his writing. Twain is truly one of the great faces of American literature.
Some quotes:
"When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus"
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
Information retrieved from: http://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564 on November 3rd, 2016
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