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Career as a journalist
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the birth of “Mark Twain”
“Mark Twain” which means
“watermark two”,
was a call used by sailors on the
Mississippi to warm shipmates
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His most productive years ＆ his marriage
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His Marriage
At 34 years old he married
Olivia Langdon Clemens,
daughter of a New York coal magnate,
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1858, he was 22, he came back to Missouri and became a river pilot
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he became a miner in the silver-mining
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Mark Twain
1835-1910
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Birth
Date: Nov.30, 1835 Place: Florida, Missouri
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
塞谬尔·朗赫恩·克莱门斯
that they were coming into sh温就取自船工生活：
mark 是“测标”，twain为“两英寻（合
12英尺）”，
“202测0/1标/16 两英寻”说明仍是安全水位。
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he began use “Mark Twain” in1863
How did his pen name came from ?
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he's family moved to Hannibal Missouri in 1839
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Family
• Sixth child in seven children • Father: poor lawyer • Mother: died when he was 4 • Brother: Benjamin, died three years later • Among his brothers and sisters, only
two survived.
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when Twain was 11,(1847) his father
died of pneumonia（肺炎）.
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He left school at 13 and became a full-time apprentice（学徒） to a printer . and then wo202r0k/1/e16d in Hannibal Journal which establish by8
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The couple's marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivia's death in 1904.
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1910 died of a heart attack
2010 Mark Twain’s Autobiography
a member of the country’s wealthy
elite.
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Financial difficulties and personal misfortunes
He invested（投资） largely on his own printing shop and became bankrupt. Heavily in debt ,he made a lecturing tour abroad and succeeded in paying all his debts, but ruined his own health.