Mark Twain also known as “Samuel Langhorne Clemens” was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida. He was the sixth children out of seven, except him two of his sibling’s survived childhood: his brother Orion and his sister Pamela.
When Mark was just four year old, they moved to a frontier town on the banks of the Mississippi River. It was a slave holding state. They owned a slave named as Jenny. Marks uncle was a rich man he also owned several slaves.
John Marshall Clemens, Father of Mark Twain was a lawyer by profession. Twain was just 11 years old when his father died of pneumonia. Mark left school when he was in fifth grade and began working as typesetter and contributor of articles for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper owned by his brother Orion.
At the age of 18 he set out for New York and started working for newspaper and gets some of his article published in that newspaper. On a voyage to New Orleans, he continues his career as a steamboat pilot as it was a rich occupation and his wage was set to be $250/month.
Then he moved to Virginia City with his brother Orion and started working there for Virginia newspaper. There he used his pen name for the first time. This gave rise to an American Philosopher. Mark Twain first achieved national and international applaud with a short story titled as Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.
Mark Twain and Charles Chestnutt are both Common called regionalist and more specifically local color writers. A year later, Mark was hired by the Sacramento Union to visit and report on his impressions of the Sandwich Islands.
It is easy to understand what weariness of soul must have possessed Mark Twain when this man - not an ordinary fool, but a man of letters - and his friends, presumably all men of intelligence, evinced complete misunderstanding of him. For, of course, the place that was the model for Hadleyburg were the human race, the nineteen men of light and leading were the virtuous and untempted of all times and all places.
John Bunyan's purpose was no stronger than, in many of his works, was Mark Twain’s. He is known to the public as a humorist. His 'Prince and Pauper' is his most original and best production. The adventures of a little Prince and pauper are the kind of things he mainly thinks about. That book represents the train of thought and imagination he would be likely to be thinking of today, tomorrow, or next day.
Mark was not only a great artist; he was pre-eminently a great American artist. No other writer that was born has ever been more extravagantly national. Whitman dreamed of an America that never was and never will be. Poe was a foreigner in every line he wrote. Even Emerson was no more than an American spigot for European. His humor was American. His incurable Philistinism was American. Above all, he was an American in his curious mixture of sentimentality and cynicism, his mingling of romanticist and iconoclast.
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