Mark-Twain

Mark Twain Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the setting for " // Huckleberry Finn" // and " // Tom Sawyer" //. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri and were married several years later, in 1823. In 1847, when Twain was 11, his father died of pneumonia