文档介绍：名人简介文学巨匠 Mark Twain:Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won aworldwide audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of TomSawyer and Huckleberry was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, of aVirginian family. He was brought up in Hannibal, Missouri. After hisfather's death in 1847, he was apprenticed to a printer and wrote forhis brother's newspaper. He later worked as a licensed Mississippiriver-boat pilot. The Civil War put an end to the steamboat traffic andClemens moved to Virginia City, where he edited the TerritorialEnterprise. On February 3, 1863, 'Mark Twain' was born whenClemens signed a humorous travel account with that 1864 Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as areporter. He visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The SacramentoUnion, publishing letterson his trip and giving lectures. He set out on a world tour, traveling in Franceand Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad,which gained him wide popularity, and poked fun at both American andEuropean prejudices and ess as a writer gave Twain enough financial security to marry OliviaLangdon in 1870. They moved next year to Hartford. Twain continued tolecture in the United States and England. Between 1876 and 1884 hepublished several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince AndThe Pauper (1881). Life On The Mississippi appeared in 1883andHuckleberry Finn in the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in thefailure of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankruptcy, he starteda world lecture tour, during which one of his daughters died. Twain touredNew Zealand, Australia, India, and South Africa. He wrote such books asThe Tragedy Of Pudd'head Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of JoanOf Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and thetravel book Following T