Mark+Twain's+Literary+Biography

Mark Twain Shelby Blair Mark Twain is a pseudonym for Samuel Clemens, whose writing includes elements of humor/satire; short stories, plays, essays, aphorisms, famous quotes, and letters. Mark Twain wrote a various amount of literature such as, “Party Cries” In Ireland, // Adventures of Tom Sawyer //, A Fable, and serval other short stories and novels. (Mark Twain’s books) Samuel Clemens adopted the name ‘Mark Twain’ when he was a river pilot in 1858. In river terms, ‘Mark Twain’ means two fathoms or 12-feet when the depth of water for a boat is being sounded. ‘Mark Twain’ also means ‘safe to navigate’. Mark Twain wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters, and sketches. He discovered he enjoyed writing at age fifteen while helping his brother Orion at Orion’s Newspaper as a printer and editors assistant. (CMG) His first book to be published was // ‘Innocents Abroad //’ in 1869. Mark Twain’s three best books that he wrote were // Roughing it, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, //and // Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. // The book // Roughing it // was about his adventure out in the West with his brother Orion (Roughing It). Mark Twain learned from his experiences, and learned that his readers liked different writing styles (Mark Twain” //Kyrene). // His first humorous writings were written while living in California and Nevada; most people found Mark Twain’s humor crude and irreverent. Many of Twain’s works were banned and became challenges for him to sell for several reasons, and not only for dialect and racial issues. Because Twain had troubles selling // Huckleberry Finn // at the Concord Public Library he decided to sell subscriptions door to door, rather than bookstores. Twain’s writings were greatly admired, because of his humor, charm, show of realism and he used such creative imagination to get all of his points across to hundreds of people. Mark Twain became a very popular author during his life time and still known as one of      America’s Best writers. (Mark Twain)

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