mark twain

[roseypink34]

doing a research report. what are the most important events of his life and character? what was the best literature works and the worst literature works?

[tartanwiz]

Mark Twain was his pen name, taken from a call used by Mississippi rivor pilots when sounding out depth. Real name Samuel Clemens, born in a town called Florida, Missouri 1n 1835, died 1910. After a tour of Europe he wrote his first successful book The Innocents Abroad. He followed this with his children's classics Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on childhood experiences of growing up in the Deep South. Others of his best literary works include A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court and The Prince and the Pauper, both of which have a satirical element. I don't know what his worst works were. He was born while Haley's Comet was in the sky and lived just long enough to see it before his death. At one point in his life it was thought he had died, to which he put a message in the newspaper saying 'What has been reported as my death has been greatly exaggerrated'.

[firefly]

Why he was given this pen-name. The Missisippi riverboatmen used the measure the number of fathoms a boat was from the river floor. The shout "Mark Twain!" indicates that it's two fathoms away. (Twain means two)

[lindylou]

Samuel Langhorn Clemens - Like William Shakespeare he died on his birthday