![]() Before leaving America, however, he befriended a steamboat captain named Horace Bixby (1826–1912). He planned to travel to the Amazon River, in South America, to make a fortune growing cocoa. He then rejoined Orion in the newspaper business, this time in Keokuk, Iowa. When the business failed, Clemens traveled throughout the Midwest and East for three years, selling nonfiction to newspapers. This forced Clemens to work as a typesetter to help support his family.Ĭlemens eventually worked for one of his brothers, Orion Clemens, who owned several newspapers. These carefree pursuits ended abruptly at age twelve, when Clemens's father died. His childhood involved adventures on rafts, in swimming holes, and in woods and caves. Three river steamboats stopped in Hannibal daily when Clemens was young. When Samuel was four, the family of four boys and two girls moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the Mississippi River. ![]() His father, John Marshall Clemens, was a lawyer and businessman. Early lifeĬlemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. Clemens had literary and financial success and failure during his long career, and died a bitter man in 1910. He wrote some of the most famous works in American literature, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, a riverboat term for water that is just deep enough for navigation. ![]()
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