Mark Twain

Mark Twain was an American author, humorist and essayist.

As a young man, Samuel Clemens educated himself in public libraries and worked as a printer and typesetter. He contributed articles to The Hannibal Journal at the age of fifteen. A wandering factotum, Clemens worked as a steamboat pilot, silver miner, journalist and, as accounts of his experiences became known to newspapers, a paid lecturer.

There is no complete accounting of Samuel Clemens work, since much of it was written for newspapers and other transient media. His earliest notable short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in The New York Saturday Press in 1865. More than a hundred novels, short stories, essays and commentaries survive, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Roughing It and other acknowledged classics of American Literature.

• 1872: Roughing It
• 1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• 1882: The Prince and the Pauper
• 1885: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• 1906: Eve's Diary
• 1916: The Mysterious Stranger

• • Mahalo's Guide to Mark Twain Quotes
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• Quoteland: Quotations by Mark Twain
• BrainyQuote.com: Mark Twain entry
• The Quotations Page: Mark Twain entry

• November 30, 1835: Born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri

• March, 1847: Father John Marshall Clemens dies of pneumonia

• 1851: Starts work as a typesetter and writer for Hannibal Journal

• 1859: Receives steamboat pilot's license

• 1865: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County published in New York Saturday Press

• 1870: Marries Olivia Langdon

• 1876: Publishes most famous work, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• 1881: The Prince and the Pauper

• 1884: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• 1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• April 21, 1910: Dies in Connecticut from angina pectoris

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• 1907: Tom Sawyer

• 1937: The Prince and the Pauper

• 1939: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• 1949: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• 1960: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• 1973: Tom Sawyer musical

• 1985: The Adventures of Mark Twain

• 1993: The Adventures of Huck Finn

• 1995: Tom and Huck