<P> Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn . He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens . He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada . He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise . His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a miner . The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French . His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty . </P> <P> Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it--notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision . He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers . He chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even after he had no legal responsibility to do so . </P> <P> Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned . He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". </P> <P> Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children born to Jane (née Lampton; 1803--1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798--1847), a native of Virginia . His parents met when his father moved to Missouri, and they were married in 1823 . Twain was of Cornish, English, and Scots - Irish descent . Only three of his siblings survived childhood: Orion (1825--1897), Henry (1838--1858), and Pamela (1827--1904). His sister Margaret (1830--1839) died when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin (1832--1842) died three years later . His brother Pleasant Hannibal (1828) died at three weeks of age . </P>

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