By the Mark Twain!
“America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California” –Mark Twain
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens, one of America’s most renowned writers and humorists. Samuel Clemens wrote over 40 books—several of which were only published after his death—in addition to any number of newspaper columns and letters. Some of his works were fiction; some of them were non-fiction stories and travels diaries. And most of it was spiced with humor and wit, and still makes for a fun read today.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri inc 1835. When he was a child his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, near the Mississippi River. At the age of 12, after his father died, he dropped out of school and became an apprentice typesetter for local newspapers. Eventually he started working for his brother, Orion Clemens, who owned several newspapers.
