Author of Pudd'n Head: Mark Twain

  Samuel Clemens was born on November 30, 1835. He is better known as his pen name Mark Twain. Which means two fathoms, a safe depth for a riverboat. Born in Florida, Missouri. He later move to Hannibal, Missouri. He is known for his work The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).Which took place in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Fin.Though his most famous novel is criticized for being racist, Mark Twain never expected nor intended the controversy that arose with the publication of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain was not racist, but depicted life in his times. 
But before becoming an famous author he was an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion. 
 

In 1872, he patented his "self-pasting" scrapbook, by 1901, at least 57 different types of his albums were available. Which is the only way he made money. 
   In 1861, Samuel Clemens avoided going to Civil War he moved to the west. He took his first writing job as a reporter at the Virginia City Territorial  Enterprise. 
At the age of 34 he married Olivia Langdon  Clemens, who was the daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the county's wealthy elite. She would be partner, editor, and fellow traveler in success and failure for the next thirty-five years. 
   By 1900 Twain had become America’s foremost celebrity. He was invited to attend ship launchings, anniversary gatherings, political conventions, and countless dinners. Because of financial problems, Clemens lived in Europe from 1891-1901, but this was neither his first nor last trip abroad. 
   When he died on April 21, 1910, newspapers around the country declared, “The whole world is mourning.” By then, Sam Clemens had long since ceased to be a private citizen. He had become Mark Twain, a proud possession of the American nation.

“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."