As Biography.com notes, today is Mark Twain's birthday.
Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to pen several novels, including two major classics of American literature, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
You can read the rest of the piece and watch a video clip via the below link:
http://www.biography.com/people/mark-twain-9512564?et_cid=57455388&et_rid=704027439&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.biography.com%2fpeople%2fmark-twain-9512564
Note: You can also read my old South Philadelphia American column on visiting Mark Twain's house in Hartford via the below link:
http://home.comcast.net/~pauldavisoncrime/pwpimages/MarkTwainHartford.jpg
No comments:
Post a Comment