Biografa de Mark Twain

Nombre completo: Mark Twain, pseudnimo de

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Lugar de nacimiento: Florida, Missouri, Estados
Unidos
Fecha de nacimiento: 30 de noviembre de 1835,
Muri: 21 de abril de 1910 en Redding, Connecticut.
Gneros literarios: Novelas
Biografa
Mark Twain un aventurero incansable, encontr en su propia vida la inspiracin para sus
obras literarias. Creci en Hannibal, pequeo pueblo ribereo del Mississippi. A los doce
aos qued hurfano de padre, abandon los estudios y entr como aprendiz de tipgrafo
en una editorial, a la vez que comenz a escribir sus primeros artculos periodsticos; ya en
1851 publicaba notas en el peridico de su hermano. Posteriormente trabaj en imprentas
de Keokuk, Iowa, Nueva York, Filadelfia y otras ciudades. Ms adelante fue piloto de un
barco de vapor, soldado de la Confederacin, y minero en las minas de plata de Nevada.
En 1862 comenz a trabajar como periodista en el Territorial Enterprise de Virginia City
(Nevada) y, al ao siguiente, comenz a firmar con el seudnimo Mark Twain, que en el
Mississippi significa dos brazas de profundidad (el calado mnimo necesario para la buena
navegacin).
Sus visiones crticas contra el racismo, el esclavitud y otros temas sociales conflictivos
truncaron su vocacin de periodista.
A partir de 1864 empez a frecuentar a otros escritores. En 1867 viaj a Europa y Tierra
Santa. En 1870 se cas con Olivia Langdon.
Su talento literario se despleg plenamente con Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1882),
obra ambientada tambin a orillas del Mississipi, aunque no tan autobiogrfica como Tom
Sawyer, y que es, sin duda, su obra maestra, e incluso una de las ms destacadas de la
literatura estadounidense, por la que ha sido considerado el Dickens norteamericano. Cabe
destacar tambin Vida en el Mississippi (1883), obra que, ms que una novela, es una
esplndida evocacin del Sur, no exenta de crtica, a raz de su trabajo como piloto.
Fue reconocido mundialmente durante los ltimos aos de su vida, y recibi el doctorado
Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Oxford (Inglaterra), en 1907. Muri el 21 de abril de
1910 en Nueva York.

Biography of Mark Twain

Full name: Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
pseudonym
Birthplace: Florida, Missouri, United States
Date of birth: November 30, 1835, He Died: April 21,
1910 in Redding, Connecticut.
literary genres: novels
Biography
Mark Twain a tireless adventurer, found in his own life
the inspiration for his literary works. He grew up in Hannibal, small coastal town of
Mississippi. At twelve years he lost his father, he left school and was apprenticed as a
typesetter in an editorial, while he began writing his first newspaper articles; and in 1851 he
published in the newspaper notes his brother. He later worked in the printing of Keokuk,
Iowa, New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Later he was piloting a steamboat,
Confederate soldier and miner in silver mines of Nevada.
In 1862 he began working as a journalist in the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City
(Nevada) and, the following year, he began to sign with the pseudonym Mark Twain, who
in Mississippi means two fathoms (the minimum depth needed for good navigation ).

His critical views against racism, slavery and other contentious social issues blunted his
vocation as a journalist.
From 1864 he began frequenting other writers. In 1867 he traveled to Europe and the Holy
Land. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon.
His literary talent was deployed fully with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1882), work is
also set on the banks of the Mississippi, though not as autobiographical as Tom Sawyer, and
it is undoubtedly his masterpiece, and even one of the most outstanding American
literature, for which he has been considered the American Dickens. Also noteworthy Life
on the Mississippi (1883), a work that, more than a novel, is a splendid evocation of the
South, not without criticism, because of his job as a pilot.
He was recognized globally over the last years of his life, and received an honorary
doctorate from the University of Oxford (England) in 1907. He died on April 21, 1910 in
New York.