Biography

=__Biography__= ==Mark Twain, his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910. He was born into a family of seven children and his parents names were John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens. He was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. His father died when he was eleven, and he left school to become a printer's apprentice. He worked as a printer in a lot of different cities before making his decision at the age of twenty-one to attempt a career as a riverboat pilot.== ==In 1865 he published The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. This story is his version a tale he heard in a mining camp while he was working as a gold prospector.Some of Twain's other famous works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was published in 1876. One of his other famous works is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was published in 1884. Another Story by Mark Twain is called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and was published in 1889.== ==Haley's Comet was visible in the sky both on the night that Mark Twain was born and on the night he passed away. He named his dogs I Know, You Know, and Don't Know. Twain published 30 books over the course of his career.He died in Redding, Connecticut and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira N.Y.==



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