- Mark Twain was born on Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1839, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a village on the Mississippi River.
- His famous pen name Twain adopted from the call ('Mark twain!' – meaning of the mark of two fathoms) used when sounding river shallows.
- 3, 1863, he first used the pen name, Mark Twain, when writing one of his humorous essays for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in Nevada.
- View a timeline of the life of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain. This is a brief chronology of his life. For more information visit us in Hannibal, MO to learn more.
- Popularly known by his pen name, Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on 30 November 1835, in Florida.
- Samuel Clemens (later better known by his pen name Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835 to the son of a Tennessee country merchant.
- Mark Twain Hayatı ve eserleri Amerikan edebiyatının en tanınmış mizah yazarlarından biridir. Asıl adı Samuel Clements’tir. Fakir bir kasaba avukatının oğlu idi.
- Kendini tümüyle edebiyata verdi. Yapıtlarında, gemicilerin suyun derinliğini ölçerken kullandıkları "Mark Twain" (iki kulaç) deyişini takma ad olarak kullandı.
- Perhaps more than any other classic American writer, Mark Twain is seen as a phenomenal author, but also as a personality that defined an era.
- - Mark Twain. Hayatımda pek çok sorun vardı ve çoğu asla var olmadı. "Yağmur duasına çıkmadan önce meteorolojinin kayıtlarını karıştırmak her zaman faydalıdır."