Later that year he and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a village on the Mississippi River. This is where he “experienced the excitement of the colorful steamboats that docked at the town wharf, brining comedians, singers, gamblers, sw

In Mark Twain’s later years he owned and operated his own publishing firm. As I mentioned briefly before he invested in the typesetting machine to make the printing business run more smoothly, but the idea did not catch on and Twain wasted nearly $200,000 in his investment. Not to mention that in 1895 his publishing business went bankrupt. Mark was so humiliated with the huge debts that he had incurred. Soon thereafter Twain went on a lecturing tour to earn money to pay off his outrageously high debts. When Mark was done touring everyone thought of him as an International hero. Although by 1898 all his debts were paid off terror struck home when his oldest daughter Susy died of meningitis in 1896. Six years later Twain sold his believed mansion in Hartford because of all the painful memories of Susy, but the agony did not stop there. On June 5, 1904 his wife, Olivia, died of a heart condition and a little over a year after that his youngest daughter died on December 24th. After all of these deaths Twain turned unhappy, gloomy, and challenged religion, which you could see through his writings. Finally on April 21, 1910 Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, passed away. He was buried at Elmira, New York. Many of his works were left unpublished including an autobiography.

indlers, slave dealers, and assorted other river travelers.”(Worldbook) It was here in Hannibal where Samuel Clemens received his first experience with literary works by working in the local print shop. Shortly after Sam’s father died, he went to work with his brother, Orion. The produced The Hannibal Journal. Part of Samuel’s duty was to submit reports, poems, and humorous sketches. “A Gallant Fireman” was Clemens’s first known published sketch. Like many authors of his day, Clemens had very little book education. He did not attend high school or college. Doing hands on activities at print shops and newspaper offices is where Clemens gained most of his education.

The Gilded Age was Twain’s first book. He relieved help from his friends and Charles Dudley Warner, one of Twain’s close writing associates. The book dealt with the time period after the civil war and made fun of selfish p

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