Mark Twain: The American Writer and Humorist

1. WHO AM I Project • From http://hadley.usd259.org/subjects/schockprojects/WhoamIppt.htm

2. He spent some time with the Confederate militia

3. He is a writer and a worked as a printer’s apprentice and a typesetter.

4. He wrote Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

5. He had two brothers and one sister

6. He was a steamboat pilot

7. In 1861 he rode with his brother Orion in Ben Holladay’s OverlandMail stagecoach west to Nevada. 

8. He became a reporter and writer for the Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise in 1862 until 1864.

9. He married a woman named Olivia Langdon in 1870

10. In 1865, he received public attention nationwide with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

11. He died of a heart disease in 1910

12. Mark Twain also know as Samuel Clemens

13. Work Cited • http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/writ102/marktwain.htm • http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_names/twain_mark/twain_mark.html