{"id":2835,"date":"2015-04-06T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2015-04-06T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T01:56:24","slug":"twain-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/twain-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Twain, Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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When we think of Mark Twain, we picture tousled white hair framing a mustached face. We think of American heroes like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. We think of a man who worked as a riverboat captain on the Mississippi, a journalist who freely spoke his mind, and a traveler who sought life’s experiences in every corner of the globe.<\/p>\n

Mark Twain started life as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida on\u00a0November 30, 1835. <\/b><\/p>\n

In 1839 his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. When Samuel was 12 his father died and he began his career as a printer’s apprentice. A few years later he went to work for his brother, also a printer, and soon published his first work. On January 16, 1851 his one paragraph article “A Gallant Fireman” appeared in Hannibal’s Western Union<\/i> and soon he became a regular newspaper contributor, adding the “Buffalo Express” and “The Galaxy” to his credits.<\/p>\n

It was the success of his second book, Innocents Abroad,<\/i> that launched his literary career, and as a result he penned over 40 books and pamphlets in his lifetime, including the classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer <\/em>and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Samuel Clemens died in 1910\u2014his death was front page news throughout the country. People everywhere mourned the passing of the most well-known American of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Heidi Grosch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we think of Mark Twain, we picture tousled white hair framing a mustached face. We think of American heroes like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. We think of a man who worked as a riverboat captain on the Mississippi, a journalist who freely spoke his mind, and a traveler who sought life’s experiences in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1048],"tags":[542,432,408,2016,2014,2013,1572,2012,2011,2015],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-classic","tag-huck-finn","tag-huckleberry-finn","tag-mark-twain","tag-mississippi","tag-samuel-clemens","tag-tom-sawyer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-JJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}