Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born on the Missouri frontier and spent his childhood here. He was forced to quit school at the age of 12 in order to earn his living. He wrote his first article at 15, and his first short story was published when he was 16. In 1857 he started down the Mississippi toward New Orleans as an apprentice steamboat pilot. The people he met and the scenes he viewed during these four years on the Mississippi furnished characters and situations for his later writings...
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