Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author who is best known for his novel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It has been called by many the Great American Novel.
Born in Florida, Missouri in 1835, Clemens was the sixth of seven children but only three of those siblings survived childhood.
Clemens began his working life as a printer's apprentice and a typesetter at which time he began contributing articles for the newspaper he worked for. He later moved to San Francisco, married, and had several children and eventually settled in Connecticut. He died in 1910.
The years of Clemens birth and death both coincide with the appearance of Halley's comet, which occurs every 75 years.
