![]() ![]() The town, situated on the Mississippi River, was in many ways a splendid place to grow up. The Clemens family "now became almost destitute," wrote biographer Everett Emerson, and was forced into years of economic struggle - a fact that would shape the career of Twain. She became head of the household in 1847 when John died unexpectedly. His mother, by contrast, was a fun-loving, tenderhearted homemaker who whiled away many a winter's night for her family by telling stories. He was an unsmiling fellow according to one legend, young Sam never saw his father laugh. John Clemens worked as a storekeeper, lawyer, judge and land speculator, dreaming of wealth but never achieving it, sometimes finding it hard to feed his family. ![]() When he was 4 years old, his family moved to nearby Hannibal, a bustling river town of 1,000 people. ![]() ![]() Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the tiny village of Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ![]()
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