Introduction: Mark Twain, a famous American writer and speaker, whose real name is Samuel Langhorn Clemens. "Mark Twain" is his pen name, which was originally a term used by Mississippi sailors to indicate the water depth measured on the waterway.
Mark Twain (1835.1.30-1910.4.21) is the most familiar American writer in China.
His original name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and he was born in Florida, Missouri. My father is a local judge with a meager income and a poor family. Little Samuel had to work when he was at school.
His father died when he was twelve, and he began to live an independent working life. He first worked as an apprentice in a printing factory, a newspaper delivery man and a compositor, and later as a sailor and helmsman on the Mississippi River. The poverty of childhood and long working life not only accumulated material for his later literary creation, but also cast his heart of justice.