Mark Twain is just a pen name, his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
He is an humanist, writer, humorist, satirist and lecturer.
His most famous work is Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Samuel Langhorne was born in Florida, Missouri. The date was November 30, 1835. Missouri is south west of Illinois that our great teacher comes from:)
In Samuel’s late life he got much depression, which began in 1896 when his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis. Meningitis is an bacterial infection in the meningeal surrounding the brain.
Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 in Redding Connecticut.
Mark Twain got buried in his wife’s family plot in Elmira, New York.
Mark Twain got rich through his writing, but spent most of it in bad investments, mostly in new inventions.
Henry Huttleston Rogers had a close friendship to Mark Twain. When Mark lost three of his four children and his wife, Rogers family became more like a surrogate family for him.
Mark Twain used the last twenty years of his life as an “outspoken anti imperialist and anti-capitalist. That means he was working against the development that maid the large nations and global companies more and more dominating in the world. Maybe he did this because the poor nations and the poor people suffered because of this development.
