The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Bookniverse

Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida, Missouri, USA. He was the sixth of seven children in his family. His father, a local lawyer, had a meager income and his family was struggling to make ends meet. Young Mark Twain had to work while he was in school. His father died when he was eleven, and from then on he began a life of independent labor, first as an apprentice in a printing press, as a newspaper carrier and typesetter, and later as a sailor and coxswain on the Mississippi River. Gradually handwritten some interesting novels and began his writing career, Mark Twain published a humorous story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in 1865 in a New York magazine, making him nationally famous. In 1869, he wrote The Innocents Abroad, which became an instant bestseller. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1876 and received even greater national acclaim and cemented Twain’s position as a giant in American literary circles.