PRESENTATION OUTLINE
WELL KNOWN BY HIS PEN NAME MARK TWAIN, WAS AN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST.K
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri in the United States. He was the sixth of seven children of his father, a country merchant John Marshall Clemens and mother Jane Lampton Clemens and only three of his siblings could survive into their adulthood.
Mark’s father John Clemens died of pneumonia in 1847, and the family was left in financial upheaval.
With the outbreak of Civil War in 1861, route on the Mississippi was blocked and he had to move to the silver mining town of the Carson City with his brother Orion. They traveled to the Rocky Mountains and many places including the Mormon community in Salt Lake City and ending at the silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.
In 1901, Yale University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for his literary efforts and he received the same award from Oxford University in 1907. The same year, he published two books- A Horse’s Tale and Christian Science. Now a celebrated novelist and much more admired author, he enjoyed a huge section of followers and wrote around thirty books, essays and short stories.
