Mark Twain,whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.
He achieved his first literary fame in 1894 with the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. His masterpiece is considered to be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which follows his Tom Sawyer novel (1876).
Mark Twain, this friendly, intelligent, and ambitious journalist and traveler, was one of America’s most popular and famous writers and perhaps the most famous American in the late 19th century. He was widely photographed and reported on wherever he went.
Samuel Clemens, who became known worldwide as Mark Twain, died on April 21, 1910, at his country house in Redding, Connecticut.
