| Mark Twain, Overland Mail, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Primarily Roughing It
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Born: 1835 in Florida, Missouri
Died: 1910
Mark Twain was a writer, lecturer and story teller. Mark Twain wrote about hometown, USA. The Mississippi River was the center piece setting in his beloved Tom Sawyer (1876)
A master piece by Mark Twain was Huckleberry Finn (1884). The Story in Mark Twain 's Roughing It (1872), was primarily about the west and the contrast of American life in the late 1800's
Mark Twain had a style of writing that was truly American. Underneath the humor were bitter questions concerning the immorality of the country. Mark Twain coined the term, "The Gilded Age" and wrote about the corrupt lifestyles of the industrial age
Mark Twain was a river boat pilot from 1859 till the Civil War closed the river traffic. In 1861 he rode with his brother Orion in Ben Holladay 's Overland Mail stagecoach west to Nevada. After a stint with gold fever and he went broke
Mark Twain became a reporter and writer for the Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise in 1862 until 1864. Mark Twain resigned and traveled by stagecoach to San Francisco
In 1865, Mark Twain received public attention nationwide with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." After roaming the Hawaiian Islands in 1866, Mark Twain returned to the mainland
His journey in Europe and the Holy Land was published in 1869 in his book, The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain finally settled down in 1870 and married Olivia Langdon whom he dearly loved
Her death in 1904 launched a bitter despair which clouded Mark Twain 's life and writings never to recover
Mark Twain died in 1910 |
