![]() ![]() ![]() This name would be used as his signature name for all of his works.Īlthough the family’s fortune’s continued to decline, the next few years gave young Sam the childhood he ould later chronicle (with a few changes of course) in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Matthews 16). He developed his pen name Mark Twain from working on a steamboat. Hannibal’s fictional name in the novel was St. Hannibal provided the setting for much of Clemens’ fiction. His family moved to Hannibal, Missouri to open up a general store. ![]() Clemens’s own boyhood life at Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, and his years as a pilot on the same river, gave him a vivid background and a close familiarity with various southwestern types that proved invaluable in the production of such a book as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Matthews 79).Ĭlemens, the first great American author, had a rough start in life- his early years were plagued by frequent illness. He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri. Because of Mark Twain’s satirist and humorous point of views, he was able to create characters and situations in his writing that reflected real- life people and events. ![]()
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