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Mark Twain was born the same day when the Halley Comet came to earth
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After the death of his sister, his family moved to Hannibal (Missouri) and there he started his first studies.
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His father died of pneumonia. He left school and he didn’t finish his studies ( In 5th grade) and in the next year, he started to work as an apprentice of printer, of the local newspaper.
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He became a typographer and he began to publish some humoristic sketches and short stories about travels in the Hannibal Journal.
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His brother bought part of the journal of Muscatine and between 1853 and 1855 Samuel made some contributions with many stories of travels.
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He began learning the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi.
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His service was cut short in 1861 by the outbreak of the Civil War, which halted most civilian traffic on the river.
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He got a big success in 1865, when one of his tales about life in a mining camp, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," was printed in newspapers and magazines around the country
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He married Olivia Langdon and traveled with her to Connecticut.
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He published the first novel that made him famous ``Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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He published ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''
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He published ``Life on the Mississippi´´
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Mark Twain published A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a science-fiction and historical novel about ancient England.
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He published ``Chapters from My Autobiography´´.
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Mark Twain died and the Halley Comet came back to earth
