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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more commonly referred to as his author's persona, "Mark Twain", was the sixth child to John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, in Florida, Missouri.
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After the death of John Marshall, Sam's family quickly went into financial issues for quite a while.
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To help keep his family afloat during rough times, while he was an early teen he got a job working at a printer shop in Hannibal.
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Through Samuel's encourage, his younger brother, Henry, decided to go into training of becoming a steamboat captain. However, he suddenly died from an explosion while he was assisting on the boat. Hearing about this, he feels extreme guilt for the rest of his career, and possible life.
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" is published, and soon after it quickly becomes a bestseller, increases "Mark Twain's" legacy as a writer, and becomes one of many world-renowned classics to come.
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Publishing, "The Gilded Age" in the same year of Twain's greatest invention, the self-pasting scrapbook, quickly soared Twain's legacy to new heights. The actual Gilded Age era was named based off of Twain's story as well.
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His greatest fictional work, the adventures of a misguided youngster in 19th century Louisiana, instantly becomes an American classic novel, and still is to this day.
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Samuel finally passes away, and reconnects with all of his deceased family members he outlived: his wife, his children, his siblings, and his parents, in Redding, Connecticut.
