A Famous writter

Jane Lampton and John Marshall Clemens. Mark was born in Florida, Missouri on

November 30, 1835. Four years later, his father moved the family to Hannibal where

Mark grew up. While he was growing up, writing wasn?t what he dreamed of doing, he of

being a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River.

When Mark was 16 years old, he worked for his older brother, Orion. When he

left Hannibal, he worked as a printer for New York and Philadelphia. When he was 21,

he met a steamboat pilot named, Horace Bixby. Mark asked Bixby to teach him

everything about being a steamboat pilot. Bixby refused to do it, then after Twain kept on

harassing him, Bixby took the offer from Twain and made him pay

their first child was born premature and only lived two years. Twain supported his family

himself to writing novels and sketches. He would perform lectures occasionally. He

as Livy. She was the sister of his friend Jervis. After seeing Livy, Mark fell instantly in

When the couple was married, Livy?s father gave them a house in Buffalo, New

wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was based on his childhood years. Other

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