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Biography and main books. • • • • • • Date of birth: November 30, 1835 Place of birth: Florida, Missouri, U.S. Date of death: April 21, 1910 (aged 74) Place of death: Redding, Connecticut, U.S. Cause of death: heart attack Main books: “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, “The Prince and the Pauper”. • Children: Langdon, Susy, Clara, Jean Twain. • Wife: Olivia Clemens. • Education: educated himself in the libraries. Interesting Facts. • • • • • • • • As a baby, he wasn’t expected to live. Twain’s formal education was limited. His career as a riverboat pilot was marred by tragedy. Twain briefly served with a Confederate militia. He struck literary gold in California. Twain based Huckleberry Finn on a real person. He was a bad businessman. Twain has no living direct descendants. • “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. • “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” - is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. • “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” - in the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur. • “The Prince and the Pauper” - set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.