Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the “‘almost invisible’” village of Florida, Missouri-then the border of the American frontier (Miller 2). “Mark Twain” was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of the major authors of American fiction (World 528). He had a wide spread of family in his life including a mother, a father, a sister, three brothers, a wife, a son, and three daughters (Waisman OL). Twain was considered the greatest humorist in American literature (World 528).
“Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on Nov. 30, 1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens.” Several years later, in 1839, the family moved (Waisman OL). At seven in the morning, he arrived in Hannibal, Missouri, where his boyhood was going to be spent (Twain 428). “At the age of 13 he became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. He became a delivery boy, grocery clerk, and blacksmith's helper during summers or after school” (Gwinn 75...