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He was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri with the name Samuel L. Clemens but is known to most as his pen name Mark Twain. When he was 4 his family moved to a small town called Hannibal, where he lived from ages 4 to 17. According to biography.com “Hannibal inspired several of Mark Twain's fictional locales, including "St

Tale, revolves around two characters and a glimpse into their opposing lives as adoptive brothers in the short 4 pages (Twain). When looking at Mark Twain’s life you can begin to notice some crazy surprises about his past. First of all, Samuel L. Clemens is his real name, Mark Twain just acts as his pen name (“Mark Twain”). When reading through Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale readers can begin to establish connections with Mark Twain’s personal life through the characters if they have some

Biography of Mark Twain Mark Twain was a writer whose works revolved around his childhood experiences growing up on the Mississippi River. The main source of his writing was the time he spent in Hannibal, Missouri as a young boy. He also used his childhood friends in many of his work, such as modeling the character Sid in Huck Finn after his brother Henry. Twain also used the happy times in his life to express his feeling in his writings. Twain used the trials of his life to make his works humorous

loosely reality based. Mark Twain had an interesting life. Mark twain was from Florida Missouri where he was surround by racism and cruelty like racism. He was born to a poor family and when his Father died in 1847 when young Samuel Langhorne Clemens left school in 5th grade he became a newspaper apprentice to provide income to the household. He also started writing his first stories A Gallant Fireman in 1851 and The Dandy Frightening the Squatter in 1852 along with little exerts here and there