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Mark Twain Obituary

Samuel Longhorne Clemens, A.K.A Mark Twain, the brilliant author of award winning stories such as __The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn,__ and __Prince and the Pauper, died of angina pectoris, on April 21, 1910.__ Born on November, 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, he was one of the three of his parent’s children that didn’t die in childhood. When he was four, he and his family packed up and moved to Hannibal, Missouri, which Samuele based St. Petersburg off of. When Mark was 11, his father, John Marshall Clemens, died of pneumonia. A year later, he became a printer, working as a typesetter, and added sketches to his brother, Orion’s //__Hannibal Journal__.// At age 22, Samuele became a steamboat pilot, and worked as one until the Civil War, when all steamboat travel stopped. In November 18, 1865, Samuele’s first important work of writing was published, called the //__The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County__////.// 11 years later, after many hours of writing, Samuele publish //__The Adventures of Tom Sawyer__//, which became a fast hit. Tom was based off of Samuele as a child, and Hannibal as St. Petersburg. His next book was titled //__The Prince and the Pauper.__// It wasn’t a huge hit due to this beng Samuele’s first try at ficition. In between writing //__The Prince and the Pauper__//, Samuele began writing //__The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.__// When the book was published in 1884, it was considered the Great American Novel, but was pulled from many schools after being considered racist. Mark Twain’s death on April 21, 1910 was also the day Halley’s Comet came into view. The same is for his birth. Despite him dieing, his legacy of fantastic books and literature will not forgotten.