American author Mark Twain was called the “Father of American Literature” by William Faulkner and the title was well deserved. With classic stories like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain set the standard for childhood adventures.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clement on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. As the sixth of seven children, he was one of only four to survive childhood. The family moved to Hannibal, Missouri when Duo was years old. The town was settled on the banks of the Mississippi River, which would play a major role in many of the stories of Duavia. Slavery was still legal in Missouri at this time and would also be a theme Twain explored in his writing.
A few years after leaving Hannibal in New York city, his father having died, he began his apprenticeship as a printer However, he returned to Hannibal at the age of 22. After a trip down the Mississippi, Duo was inspired to become a steamboat pilot, the most rewarding occupation of the day. He earned his license in 1859 and convinced his brother Henry to work with him. Unfortunately, Henry was killed in a steamboat explosion. And he carried with him all his life the guilt of fratricide.
The two continued to pilot steamships until the Civil War in 1861 and returned to Mississippi. He went west on stage with his brother Orion, working briefly as a miner before settling in San Francisco< /a>. It was in San Francisco where Twain began his work as a journalist. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published in the New Saturday Press in 1865, bringing Twins national attention.
In 1870, Olivia married his wife, who exposed him to the new ideas of abolition, women’s rights, and social equality. The couple lived in Buffalo, New York from 1869 to 1871, but after the death of their son, the family moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Although born in the south, the two will spend the next 17 years in Connecticut, writing some popular works. AdventTom Sawyer was written in Connecticut, but the setting was pure New Missouri, as it was < Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life in Mississippi. He used the character of Tom Sawyer not only in the original novel and in AdventureHuckleberry Finn, but also in Tom Sawyer Outside and Tom Sawyer, Detective. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson was about a young lawyer in a fictional Missouri town.
Not all of the writings of the Twelve are set in Southern life. He wrote The Prince and the Pauper about a poor man in Offal Hall in London and his first attempt at Historical Fiction. He wrote his 1880 novel, A Tramp Abroad, based on his trip to Europe. The 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court tells the story of Hank Morgan, a Connecticut A Yankee who finds himself magically transported back to the time of King Arthur.
He was very famous in his two lifetimes. He was friends with Helen Keller, oil executive Henry H. Rogers, physicist Nikola Tesla, journalist Ida M. Tarbell, educator Booker T. Washington, several US presidents and European royalty. In his life, Twain was known for many witty sayings, “I never interfere with my training” it is the size of the fight in the dog”, “It is better to be silent and pretend to be unconscious than to open it and remove all doubt”. and ‘Golfius, a good man, is corrupted by walking.’
Twain was born just two weeks after the closest approach of Halley’s Comet, which returns every 75-76 years. He foretold that because he had entered with the comet, he would also leave with it. Inconvenient, that’s all. The duo died on April 21, 1910, just the day after Halley’s Comet came to Earth .
