Biography of Mark TwainMark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 under the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens as "the sixth living child of John and Jane Clemens" in the Florida city, Monroe County, Missouri (Cox 7). While there, his father ran a general store and unsuccessfully attempted to create an invention that would bring him wealth. Therefore, in a short time, the store went out of business, and John Clemens moved the family to Hannibal, Missouri, which Mark Twain would make famous. Little Sam, as he was called as a young man, was never particularly close to his family, with the exception of his mother whom he looked up to and admired greatly. At that time Twain had five siblings, his three brothers “Orion, Benjamin, and Henry, and his [two] sisters, Pamela and Mary” (Cox 9). A prevalent influence in his young life was slavery as his father “owned or rented slaves” whenever money was available (Cox 9). He felt great sympathy for slaves and one night had difficulty sleeping while he listened to “the moans of a captured and bound runaway slave in a nearby shack (Cox 13 Despite his strong feelings and subsequent condemnation of slavery, when two were young he was unaware that there was any problem with slavery as no one did). spoke as anything other than right, holy and proper. As he grew up, he still remained unaware of the immorality of slavery, but he also knew without knowing it beforehand that it was wrong. The influences that slavery had on him were later expressed very clearly in one of his most popular novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His only formal education was a private school in Hannibal, for which he rather quickly developed a great contempt. He then spent summers on his uncle's farm, where... mid-paper... marrying Olivia and having three daughters, he began writing his most memorable books and stories. He wrote literary masterpieces that forever shook and changed the face of American literature forever. Because of all his hardships and his vast influence in the literary field, Mark Twain was and will forever be one of the greatest writers to ever live and influence the face of literature as we know it. Works Cited Cox, Clinton. "Mark Twain." New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995. Marshall, Donald G. “American Literature.” Advanced World Book. World Book, 2013. Web. November 18, 2013. Marshall, Donald G. "Twain, Mark." Advanced World Book. World Book, 2013. Web. November 17, 2013.Twain, Mark. “The Prince and the Pauper”. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1881."Twain, Mark, 1835-1910." ProQuest Biographies. 2006: np SIRS Renaissance. Network. November 18 2013.