Life story
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the thirtieth of November, 1835, and grew into the writer the world would come to know by the pen name Mark Twain. He became an American writer, humorist, and essayist whose voice carried the plain cadence of his native country.
In the years of his working life he gave literature some of its most enduring characters. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in 1876, and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which appeared in 1884 and has often been called the Great American Novel.
His pen ranged widely across the human comedy. He wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889 and Pudd'nhead Wilson in 1894, and he shared the writing of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner in 1873. He has been praised as the greatest humorist the United States has produced.
He died on the twenty-first of April, 1910, and was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery. William Faulkner called him the father of American literature, and by that name his memory endures.
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Constellation of Life
Important milestones that shaped their journey.