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Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorn Clemens. He was the sixth of seven children born to the Clemens family. He was premature and very sick, Haley's comet was visible the night he was born.
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Clements left Hannibal at age 17 with a degree of self sufficientcy.
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Becomes a cub-pilot for Horace Bixby. Spends next two years “learning” the river, later described in Life on the Mississippi.
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Sam got his pen name Mark Twain in 1860 from the way in which the depth of the water was checked on the riverboats. He used the name on everything he wrote from that day foward.
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After Twain spent time out west he gets a job witing for the Territoriall Enterprise.
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Twain travels out westand writes a story of the famous jumping frog.
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Twain meets his future wife Olivia Langdon
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He finally settled down an got married and started a family in Connecticut. Where he wrote many of his stories there.
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Twain passed through a period of deep depression that began in 1896 when his daughter Susy died of meningitis.
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Died in Conneticut at a reading.
