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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Sam Clemens was Mark Twain's real name, Mark Twain was his pen name. Sam was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1835. Mark was a normal adventurous man all his life and went from job to job till he found his true calling which was writing. In his years he really loved the job of piloting steam boats for a living and writing on the side. Mark started writing on the side of his main job to pass time and entertain himself.

Marks big successes were his short stories, Mark was known for them for years then evolving to bigger projects like novels, poems and quotes. Mark Twain was a very successful person in his life, he was forced to start working at the age of eleven and was left to look out for his other siblings with a hefty financial toll. Mark worked his whole life and tried his very best and never gave up. He tried to work at a printing press and mining, but, later lost money in those businesses. He wrote to help him deal with the stress and then let his siblings read it.

Twain became the best known author when his most famous book came out __Tom Sawyer__ which was about a troubled boy just like him, he also did the short stories in the newspaper for a while of life as well.He was awarded the Doctors Letter Degree at Oxford University in 1907. Mark graduated from Mizzou with a masters degree in English in 1902.

In 1870 Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon which he had four kids with, sadly three of them died before they reached their twenties. They went to Florence, Italy for a while and while there his dauther Jane had an epileptic seizure which she died from. Clara Twain was the lucky one who live till she was an old age of 88. Mark Twain died April 21, 1910 in his home peacefully and lays with his family in his grave.

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