Mark Twain
When did Clemens' father die?
1847
When did Twain go to San Francisco?
1864
When did Twain go to Hawaii?
1866
When did Twain travel to the Mediterranean and the Holy Land?
1867
When did Twain move to Hartford, Conneticut?
1871
When was Roughing It published?
1872
When was The Gilded Age published?
1873
When was Tom Sawyer published?
1875
When was The Prince and the Pauper published?
1882
Increasingly involved financial problems prompted Twain to move to Europe in what year?
1891
When did Twain's daughter Susy die?
1896
When did Twain's wife die?
1904
What is Mark Twain called?
America's greatest writer
Who helped Twain write The Gilded Age?
Charles Warner
What was Charles Warner's middle name?
Dudley
Where was Olivia Langdon from?
Elmira, NY
What is Samuel Clemens' middle name?
Langhorne
Early in 1863, Clemens adopted what name?
Mark Twain
From 1853-1857, Twain visited and periodically worked as a printer in what places?
New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinatti
Who did Twain marry in 1870?
Olivia Langdon
What works did Twain produce in Hartford and Elmira in the summers?
Roughing It, Tom Sawyer, and The Gilded Age
What was Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel Clemens
What story earned Twain international fame?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County
What was Twain's first historic novel?
The Prince and the Pauper
What did Samuel Clemens' work have?
a major influence on 20th-century American fiction
Before Clemens became a writer what was he apprenticed to be?
a printer
In 1894, following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige typesetting machine in which he had invested heavily, Twain was forced to do what?
declare bankruptcy
After unsuccessful attempts at what, did Clemens return to writing?
gold and silver mining
Why did Twain abandon journalism and his job as editor and part owner of the Buffalo Express?
he wanted to devote his full attention to serious literature
What is Twain's A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
his most powerful fictional indictment of political and social injustice
When Twain moved to Hartford what did he abandon?
journalism and his job as editor and part owner of the Buffalo Express
Twain's writings of the late 1890s and 1900s became more what than ever?
pessimistic
When did Clemens' writing career begin?
shortly after the death of his father
In 1861, Twain traveled by what to Carson City, Nevada?
stagecoach
After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, Clemens learned the difficult art of what?
steamboat piloting
Clemens did steamboat piloting until what?
the Civil War closed the river
What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn called?
the greatest American novel ever written
The Simpsons, The Onion, The Colbert Report, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all have what in common?
they use humor and satire
Why did Twain go on a world lecture tour in 1895?
to recoup his losses
