Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Longhorn Clemens (1835 - 1910), the United States' famous humorist and the author of popular and outstanding autobiographical works, travel books, and novels. The first thirty-six years of Clemens' life gave him experiences - as a boy in a little town in Missouri, as a steamboat pilot, as a reporter on the far western frontier, and as a traveler abroad - which he thereafter used as materials for his best and most successful writing.He was born on November 30th,1835. Hannibal was the town ò Clemens' boyhood, destined to figure importantly in several of his finest books. The steamboats which Clemens and his gang of boyhood friends watched wheeling past or were prototypes of characters in Mark Twain's books. The river and the woods around the town wew wonderful places for the boys to play. In the summer, Samuel ordinarily paid a vacation visit to the farm of his uncle John Quarles, near Florida. Some of his happiest and most vivid memories were to be of his play around Hannibal and of his visit to the farm.The Adventure of Tom Sawyer (1876) was one of Twain's best books, certainly his best for juvenile audience. The setting was St. Petersburg. The characters were the grownups and the children of the town in the 1830s. The happy endings endear the book to children; the lifelike picture of the boy, Tom Sawyer, and his friends is enjoyed by many people, both young and old
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