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----The true father of American national literature ----Mirror of America;The Age of Realism ;;;Pen name :Mark Twain Real name :Samuel Langhorne Clemens Birthday : November 30, 1835 Date of death : April 21, 1910 status: an American author , humorist and orator Achievement: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn （ the latter often called “The Great American Novel”. ） Rank : “The true father of American national literature.” ”The greatest American humorist of his age” ;Family background;Age: 11----his father died Age: 15----worked as a typesetter and contributor (of articles and humorous sketches for a newspaper his brother owned) Age: 18----worked as a printer in New York City (joined the printers union, and educated himself in public libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school);?;?;1861:Twain enlisted briefly in a Confederate local unit. 1863:worked at a Virginia city and firstly used his pen name 1864:moved to San Francisco ,worked as a journalist 1865:first success as a writer for his work “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County“ 1867-1869:a trip to the Mediterranean. During his tour of Europe and the Middle East, he wrote a popular collection of travel letters, which were later compiled as The Innocents Abroad (1869). ;Throughout 1868, Twain and Olivia Langdon corresponded. Though she rejected his first marriage proposal, two months later, they were engaged. She came from a wealthy but liberal family, and through her, he met abolitionists, socialists, principled atheists and activists for womens rights and social equality, including Harriet Beecher Stowe (his next-door neighbor in Hartford), Frederick Douglass, and the writer and utopian socialist William Dean Howells, who became a long-time friend. They had three daughters . While they were living in Buffalo, their son Langdon died of diphtheria at age 19 months. The couples marriage lasted 34 years, until Olivias death