1. Mark Twain & Tom Sawyer By Jennifer Coccia

2. Mark Twain(1830s-1850s)  His real name is Samuel Clemens  Born in Florida, Missouri Nov.30 1835  John Marshall Clemens (his father) died when Sam (Mark) was only 12  Age 18 moves to Philadelphia  Comes back to Hannibal at the age of 21 and gets a steamboat pilot  2 years later he gets his license

3. Facts about Mark Twain(1860s- 1880s)  Joins militia and travels to Nevada with his brother Orion  1863 he leaves Nevada to avoid prosecution on anti-dueling laws  Got engaged to Olivia Langdon  1874 Clara Langdon Clemens was born the first child  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published  1880 2 nd daughter Jean was born  "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in 1884  He found his own publishing company Charles L. Webster and Company  "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was published in 1889

4. Mark Twain(1890-1900)  Twain went bankrupt in 1894  1896 Susy the oldest daughter dies  Mark Twain got an award from Yale University in 1901  1903 Mark Twain moves to Florance,Italy  1909 the youngest daughter Jean dies from drowning in the bathtub from what they think was an epileptic seisure.  Mark Twain dies in 1910 April 21 from a heart disease.

5. Works of Mark Twain  Innocents Abroad (1869)  Roughing It (1872)  $30,000 Bequest & Other Stories(1874)  Tom Sawyer (1876)

6. Works of Mark Twain Continued  A Tramp Abroad (1880)  The Prince and the Pauper (1882)  Life on the Mississippi (1883)  Huckleberry Finn (1885)

7. More Works  Following the Equator (1897)  Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909)  The Mysterious Stranger (1916)

8. More Works  Connecticut Yankee (1889)  Those Extraordinary Twins(1894)  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)  Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)

9. Mark Twain’s Family

10. Interesting Facts  His childhood dream was to become a steamboat man on the Mississippi River.  He out lived all of his children.  He was born when Halley's Comet happened and it also happened when he died.  There was a Hannah-Barbara cartoon based on him.  He wrote his book, "Death After Jean" after his youngest daughter's death and vowed never to write another book again.  He would always wear a white jacket, white pants, and a white shirt, but he would also wear red socks. He would do this to see what people would say about them.