Mark Twain's real name, Samuel Clemens - American writer and humorist, satyryst, writer, publisher. Most famous for works of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Lenhhorn Samuel Clemens was born November 30, 1835 in the town of Florida (Missouri) family tenesiyskoho merchant John Marshall Clemens and Jane Clement Lempton. He was the sixth child in a family with seven children. Only three of his siblings survived childhood. When Mark Twain was 4 years old, his family moved to the town of Hannibal, where there was a river port on the Mississippi River. Later Hannibal serve praobrazy town in the famous novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." At that time, Missouri was rabovlasnytskyym state, because by this time Mark Twain was able to view slavery that will eventually describe and condemn in his works. In March 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia. The following year, he began working in the printing assistant. Since 1851 deals set (printing) and edited articles and humorous sketches for "Hannibalskoho Journal" newspaper, which was owned by his brother Orion. At age 18, he left Hannibal and worked in publishing houses in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and other cities. He engaged in self-education, spending much time in the library, so getting as much knowledge as he would be able to obtain, following an ordinary school. At the age of 22 Twain returned to Missouri. On the way to New Orleans Mark Twain traveled by boat. Then he had the dream to become the captain of the ship. Twain extremely carefully studied 2,000 miles of the Mississippi River for two years, until he received a diploma in 1859, the captain of the ship. Captain worked until civil war broke out and shipping in Missisippi stopped.
