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American writer, journalist, and humorist, who won a worldwide

audience for his stories of youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and

Huckleberry Finn. Sensitive to the sound of language, Twain introduced

colloquial speech into American fiction. In Green Hills of Africa, Ernest

Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one

book by Mark Twain called ‖

“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among

my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

That was, to be a steam boat man.” (from 'Old Times on the

Mississippi', 1875)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri,

of a Virginian family. The family soon moved to Hannibal, Missouri,

where Twain was brought up. At school, according to his own words, he

"excelled only in spelling". After his father's death in 1847, Twain was

apprenticed to a printer. He also started his career as a journalist by

writing for the Hannibal Journal. Later Twain worked as a licensed

Mississippi river-boat pilot (1857-61). His famous penname Twain

adopted from the call ('Mark twain!' – meaning by the mark of two

fathoms) used when sounding river shallows. But this isn't the full story:

he had also satirized an older writer, Isaiah Sellers, who called himself

Mark Twain. In 1861 Twain served briefly as a confederate irregular. The

Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic, and during a period when

Twain was out of work, he lived in a primitive cabin on Jackass Hill and

tried his luck as a gold-miner. ―I would have been more or less than

human if I had not gone mad like the rest,‖ he confessed.

Twain moved to Virginia City, where he edited two years Territorial

Enterprise. On February 3, 1863, 'Mark Twain' was born when he signed

a humorous travel account with that pseudonym. In 1864 Twain left for

California, where worked in San Francisco as a reporter. After hearing a

story about a frog, Twain made an entry in his notebook: "Coleman with

his jumping frog – bet a stranger $50. – Stranger had no frog and C. got

him one: – In the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he

couldn't jump. The stranger's frog won." From these lines he developed

'Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog' which was published in The Saturday

Press of New York on the 18th of November in 1865. It was reprinted all

over the country and became the foundation stone of THE

CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, AND

OTHER SKETCHES (1867). This work marked the beginning of Twain's

literary career.

In 1866 Twain visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The Sacramento

Union, publishing letters on his trip. He then set out world tour, travelling

in France and Italy. His experiences Twain recorded in THE