马克吐温生平

The couple's marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivia's death in 1904.
1910 died of a heart attack 2010 Mark Twain’s Autobiography
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.
when Twain was 11,(1847) his father died of pneumonia（肺炎）.
He left school at 13 and became a full-time apprentice（学徒） to a printer . and then worked in Hannibal Journal which establish by his brother
he's family moved to Hannibal Missouri in 1839
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.
Mark Twain
1835-1910
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Mark Twain
Birth
Date: Nov.30, 1835 Place: Florida, Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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How did his pen name came from ?
he began use “Mark Twain” in1863
His most productive years ＆ his marriage
His Marriage
At 34 years old he married Olivia Langdon Clemens, daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the country’s wealthy elite.
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 town of Virginia City
Career as a journalist
the birth of “Mark Twain”
“Mark Twain” which means “watermark two”, was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warm shipmates that they were coming into shallow water. 他的笔名马克 • 吐温就取自船工生活： mark 是“测标”，twain为“两英寻（合 12英尺）”， “测标两英寻”说明仍是安全水位。