Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He had a successful career as a writer, authoring famous works like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain died in 1910 in Redding, Connecticut at the age of 74, fulfilling his own prediction that he would die with the return of Halley's Comet, with which his life began. He was a renowned American humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

1. Mark Twain

2. •Twain was
born
November
30th,1835 in
Florida,
Missouri
•He died on
April 21st,
1910 (74
years old) in
Redding
Connecticut

3.  Samuel Langhorne Clemens is Mark twains real
name
 He was the son of Jane Lampton and John Marshal
Clemmons
 He was the sixth of seven children
 Twains father died when he was 11 from
phenomena
 When he turned 18 he worked as a printer in New
York
 After working as a printer for a couple years twain
became steamboat captain for the Mississippi river

4.  Twain married Olivia langdon
 They had 4 children together: One
son Langdon who died of diphtheria at
19 months. Three daughters: Susy (1872–
1896), Clara (1874–1962) Jean(1880–1909).
 The family grew up in Hartford Conneticut
 The couple's marriage lasted 34 years, until
Olivia's death in 1904

5.  Twains most
famous works
include The
adventures of
Tom Sawyer
and its sequel
Adventures of
Huckleberry
and Finn

6.  ―Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The
world owes you nothing. It was here first.‖
 ―Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it
doesn't matter.‖
 ―Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the
blind can see.
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 ―Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the
age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.‖

7.  Twain was quoted saying this "I came in
with Halley's Cometin 1835. It is coming again
next year, 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.―
 His prediction was accurate—Twain died of
a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Redding,
Connecticut one day after the comet's closest
approach to Earth.

8.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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 http://www.marktwainhouse.org/