WHO WAS MARK TWAIN?

MARK TWAIN

This biography is about Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. He was an American writer. He was born in 1835 in a small village called Hannibal in Missouri. Mark had many jobs. For one year he worked as a printer's apprentice. Then he was a pilot for the steamboats on the Mississippi river. On the boat there was a man throwing  a  rope had some marks to know the depth of the water. At some places this was shouted "Mark twain" many times and he took his pen name from that shout. From 1861 to 1865 there was a civil war in the North America. Mark Twain fought for the Confederate Army. After that, he worket as a gold-miner and a journalist. In 1870. he married and they lived in Connecticut until he diet in 1910. Mark Twain wrote many stories. Some of them are: "The adventures of Tom Sawer","The adventures of Huckleberry Finn",The Prince and the Pauper"...