关于几个美国作家和作品Herman MelvilleMark TwainEzra PoundThomas Stearns Eliot Ernest HemingwayWilliam Faulkner的中文名字,代表作,历史背景和当时的文学运动.

关于几个美国作家和作品Herman MelvilleMark TwainEzra PoundThomas Stearns Eliot Ernest HemingwayWilliam Faulkner的中文名字,代表作,历史背景和当时的文学运动.
关于几个美国作家和作品
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
Ezra Pound
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
的中文名字,代表作,历史背景和当时的文学运动.

关于几个美国作家和作品Herman MelvilleMark TwainEzra PoundThomas Stearns Eliot Ernest HemingwayWilliam Faulkner的中文名字,代表作,历史背景和当时的文学运动.
Melville, Herman (1819-1891), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns. His works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized.
Melville was born in New York City, into a family whose fortunes had declined. In 1839 he shipped to Liverpool, England, as a cabin boy. When he returned to the United States he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18-month voyage Melville deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals (see Cannibalism). He escaped aboard an Australian trader, leaving it at Papeete, Tahiti, where he was imprisoned temporarily. He worked as a field laborer and then shipped to Honolulu, Hawaii, where in 1843 he enlisted as a seaman on the U.S. Navy frigate United States. After his discharge in 1844 Melville began to write novels based on his experiences and to take part in the literary life of Boston, Massachusetts, and of New York City.
Melville's first five novels all achieved quick popularity. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) and Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) were romances of the South Sea islands. Mardi (1849) was a complex allegorical fantasy. Redburn, His First Voyage (1849), based on Melville's first trip to sea, and White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (1850), a fictionalization of his experiences in the navy, exposed the abuse of sailors that was prevalent in the U.S. Navy at that time. In 1850 Melville moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he became an intimate friend of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom Melville dedicated his masterpiece, Moby Dick; or The Whale (1851).
The central theme of this novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod, and Moby Dick, a great white whale that once tore off one of Ahab's legs at the knee. Ahab is dedicated to revenge; he drives himself and his crew, which includes Ishmael, the narrator of the story, over the seas in a desperate search for his enemy. The body of the book is written in a wholly original, powerful narrative style, which, in certain sections of the work, Melville varied with great success. The most impressive of these sections include the rhetorically magnificent sermon delivered before sailing and the soliloquies of the mates; lengthy “flats,” passages conveying nonnarrative material, usually of a technical nature, such as the chapter about whales; and the more purely ornamental passages, such as the tale of the Tally-Ho. These sections can stand by themselves as short stories of merit. The work is invested with Ishmael's sense of profound wonder at his story, but it nonetheless conveys full awareness that Ahab's quest can have but one end. And so it proves to be: Moby Dick destroys the Pequod and all its crew except Ishmael.
Moby Dick was not a financial success, and Melville's next novel, Pierre: or the Ambiguities (1852), a darkly allegorical exploration of the nature of evil, was a critical and financial failure. Today, however, it enjoys some acceptance by critics and the public. Israel Potter (1855), a historical romance, was equally unsuccessful.
The Piazza Tales (1856) contains some of Melville's finest shorter works; particularly notable are the powerful short stories “Benito Cereno” and “Bartleby the Scrivener” and the ten descriptive sketches of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, titled “The Encantadas.” The unfinished novel The Confidence-Man (1857), set on a steamboat on the Mississippi River, satirizes the selfishness and commercialism of Melville's time. Between 1866 and 1885 Melville worked as a customs inspector in New York City in order to support himself. During this period he published poetry that has since gained increasing respect, including Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and the book-length Clarel (1876), about a troubled pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1891 he completed his last work, the novella Billy Budd, Foretopman (1924). It is the story of a young sailor, personifying innocence, who is doomed by the malevolent hatred of a ship's officer, personifying evil. The work was adapted as an opera in 1951 by the English composer Benjamin Britten in collaboration with the English novelist E. M. Forster, and both as a play and as a film in 1962.
___________________
Twain, Mark, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.
Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he worked as a printer in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861-1865) brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry. Later that year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep.” After moving to San Francisco, California, in 1864, Twain met American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” had become national sensations.
In 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Europe and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad (1869), a book exaggerating those aspects of European culture that impress American tourists. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twain's best work was written in the 1870s and 1880s in Hartford or during the summers at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. Roughing It (1872) recounts his early adventures as a miner and journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) celebrates boyhood in a town on the Mississippi River; A Tramp Abroad (1880) describes a walking trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps; The Prince and the Pauper (1882), a children's book, focuses on switched identities in Tudor England; Life on the Mississippi (1883) combines an autobiographical account of his experiences as a river pilot with a visit to the Mississippi nearly two decades after he left it; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) satirizes oppression in feudal England (see Feudalism).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the sequel to Tom Sawyer, is considered Twain's masterpiece. The book is the story of the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. The pair's adventures show Huck (and the reader) the cruelty of which men and women are capable. Another theme of the novel is the conflict between Huck's feelings of friendship with Jim, who is one of the few people he can trust, and his knowledge that he is breaking the laws of the time by helping Jim escape. Huckleberry Finn, which is almost entirely narrated from Huck's point of view, is noted for its authentic language and for its deep commitment to freedom. Huck's adventures also provide the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the Civil War. Twain's skill in capturing the rhythms of that life help make the book one of the masterpieces of American literature.
In 1884 Twain formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Company to publish his and other writers' works, notably Personal Memoirs (two volumes, 1885-1886) by American general and president Ulysses S. Grant. A disastrous investment in an automatic typesetting machine led to the firm's bankruptcy in 1894. A successful worldwide lecture tour and the book based on those travels, Following the Equator (1897), paid off Twain's debts.
Twain's work during the 1890s and the 1900s is marked by growing pessimism and bitterness—the result of his business reverses and, later, the deaths of his wife and two daughters. Significant works of this period are Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), a novel set in the South before the Civil War that criticizes racism by focusing on mistaken racial identities, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), a sentimental biography. Twain's other later writings include short stories, the best known of which are “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1899) and “The War Prayer” (1905); philosophical, social, and political essays; the manuscript of “The Mysterious Stranger,” an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously in 1916; and autobiographical dictations.
Twain's work was inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American Literature by New England writers. He is justly renowned as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role that Twain played in creating a truly American literature. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with those traditions. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing.
In Twain's later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently speaking out on public issues. He also came to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances. Twain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1907. When he died he left an uncompleted autobiography, which was eventually edited by his secretary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and published in 1924. In 1990 the first half of a handwritten manuscript of Huckleberry Finn was discovered in Hollywood, California. After a series of legal battles over ownership, the portion, which included previously unpublished material, was reunited with its second half, which had been housed at the Buffalo and Erie County (New York) Public Library, in 1992. A revised edition of Huckleberry Finn including the unpublished material was released in 1996.
______________________
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972), American poet, critic, editor, and translator, considered one of the foremost American literary figures of the 20th century. Pound was a chief architect of English and American literary modernism, a movement characterized by experimentation in literary form and content, exploration of the literary traditions of non-Western and ancient cultures, and rejection of the traditions of the immediate past.
_____
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
超过字数限制了.：）

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 (Herman Melville, 1819-91)
生於纽约。父亲经营进口生意，起初业务兴隆，后破产，卒於一八三二年，遗下妻子儿女(后移居纽约州奥尔巴尼)。在亲戚的援助下，勉强维生。梅尔维尔曾在银行工作，也教过书。一八四一年搭捕鲸船阿库什尼特号去南太平洋以前。曾以船上侍者身分去过一次利物浦。一八四二年他在马克萨斯岛弃船潜逃，碰到吃人的野人，后来搭澳洲捕鲸船离开群岛。其后...

全部展开

赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 (Herman Melville, 1819-91)
生於纽约。父亲经营进口生意，起初业务兴隆，后破产，卒於一八三二年，遗下妻子儿女(后移居纽约州奥尔巴尼)。在亲戚的援助下，勉强维生。梅尔维尔曾在银行工作，也教过书。一八四一年搭捕鲸船阿库什尼特号去南太平洋以前。曾以船上侍者身分去过一次利物浦。一八四二年他在马克萨斯岛弃船潜逃，碰到吃人的野人，后来搭澳洲捕鲸船离开群岛。其后他又到塔希提岛和檀香山闯过一阵子江湖，於一八四四年乘美国号快速带帆战舰返美。开始根据航海经历从事写作∶《泰皮》(Typee, 1846)，《欧穆》(Omoo, 1847，他於是年结婚)，两书均受欢迎；《玛地》(Mardi, 1849)、《雷得本》(Redburn, 1849)，《白外衣》(White-Jacket, 1850＞，《白鲸》(Moby Dick, 1851)，《皮埃尔》(Pierre, 1852)。其中《玛地》使人感到迷惑，《白鲸》不受欢迎，《皮埃尔》彻底失败。其后逐渐放弃写作生涯，但也完成若干短篇，其中六篇收集在《广场故事》里(Piazza Tales, 1856)，和另外两部小说，《伊斯雷尔·波特》(Israel Potter, 1855)和《骗子的化装表演》(The Confidence-Man, 1857)。他随后转而写诗，其中大部分包括长诗《克拉瑞尔》 (Clarel, 1876)在内，系由私人出版。一八六六至一八八五年在纽约任海关检查员；终於退休，静度馀年，临终前数月写成《毕利·伯德》(Billy Budd)，直到一九二四年才出版。
马克‧吐温 (Mark Twain)，原名『萨缪尔 克莱门斯』 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens，1835-1910)。出生於密苏里州的佛罗里达，为美国19世纪著名的幽默文学家。
由於家境贫寒，马克‧吐温并未受过完整的教育，当过排版工人、水手、矿工，美国南北战争期间转往内华达州与加州，一度加入淘金的行列，曾从事股票买卖，之后则在边境的报社中担任新闻记者，并以「马克‧吐温」为笔名发表文章。1872年后，即以写作为主，并至各地公开演讲。
他的文章以幽默机智、简洁风趣见长，具有浓烈的美国本土风味，颇受人们的欢迎。尤其擅写生活纪实的冒险故事，藉之讽喻当时崇虚尚伪、追求物质的社会现象。一生著作颇丰，代表作包括《汤姆历险记》、《顽童流浪记》、《卡拉维拉斯著名的跳蛙》、《傻子出洋记》、《镀金时代》、《乞丐王子》、《密西西比河上的生活》、《亚当夏娃的日记》等书。
庞德（Ezra Pound）
庞德（1885-1972）,意象派运动主要发起人。第一次世界大战后，迁居巴黎。二次大战期间他公开支持法西斯主义，战争结束后，他被美军逮捕，押回本土等候受审。后因医生证明他精神失常，再加上海明威和弗罗斯特等名人的奔走说项，他只被关入一家精神病院。1958年，庞德结束了12年的精神病院监禁，重返意大利居住，直至去世。主要作品有《面具》（1909）、《反击》（1912）、《献祭》（1916）、《休·西尔文·毛伯莱》（1920）和《诗章》（1917-1959）等。
艾略特
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1888-1965
[英国]
托马斯·史登斯·艾略特（Thomas Stearns Eliot，1888-1965）英美诗人、剧作家和批评家。生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯，祖籍英国。父亲是砖瓦商人，母亲是诗人，博学多才。1906年，艾略特进哈佛大学攻读哲学和英法文学，并走上了象征诗歌的创作道路。1910年走巴黎入索尔大学研究哲学和文学。1913年，任哈佛大学哲学系助教。1914年，赴伦敦入牛津大学学习希腊哲学。不久即成婚并定居英国，先后当过教师、银行职员、杂志编辑。1922年，创办文学评论季刊《标准》。1926年，任牛津大学讲师。1927年，加入英国国籍和国教。1952年，任伦敦图书馆馆长。1965年逝世。
艾艾略特从1909开始诗歌创作，先后出版《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》（1917）、《诗集》（1919）、《荒原》（1922）、《艾略特诗集》（1909-2925）、《东方贤人之旅》（1927）、《灰色的星期三》（1930）、《诗选》（1909-1935）、《四个四重奏》（1943）等。其中，《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》是早期诗歌的代表作；《荒原》产生于创作中期，是20世纪西方文学的划时代作品，现代主义诗歌的里程碑；《四个四重奏》是晚期诗歌的代表作。
30年代以后，艾略特以主要精力从事诗剧创作。主要作品有《大教堂凶杀案》（1935）、《合家团圆》（1539）、《鸡尾酒会》（1950）、《机要秘书》（1954）、《政界元老》（1959）。
艾略特还是英美新批评派的奠基人之一，主要论著有《传统与个人才能》（1917）、《论玄文学派诗人》（1921）、《批评的功能》（1923）、《诗与批评的效用》（1933）等。
艾略特自称在政治上是保皇派，宗教上是英国天主教徒，文学上是古典主义者。他的文化思想属于新经院主义和僧侣主义的范畴，主张以宗教为政治和文化中心，以"宗教复兴"来挽救西方资本主义的文明危机。艾略特的文学创作和评论著作对英美20世纪现代派文学和新批评理论起了开拓作用，被誉为"现代文学批评大师"，并一度成为英美诗界的领袖人物。
1948年，"由于他对当代诗歌作出的卓越贡献和所起的先锋作用"，艾略特获得诺贝尔文学奖。
欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威（1899—1961），美国小说家。他于1899年生于芝加哥附近的一个医生家庭，1954年获诺贝尔文学奖。曾参加第一次世界大战，后担任驻欧洲记者，并以记者身份参加了第二次世界大战和西班牙内战。晚年患多种疾病，精神抑郁，1961年自杀。他的早期长篇小说《太阳照样升起》（1927）、《永别了，武器》（1927）成为表现美国“迷惘的一代”的主要代表作。
30、40年代，他塑造了摆脱迷惘、悲观，为人民利益英勇战斗和无畏牺牲的反法西斯战士形象《第五纵队》，长篇小说《丧钟为谁而鸣》。50年代，塑造了以桑提亚哥为代表的“可以把他消灭，但就是打不败他”的“硬汉形象”（代表作《老人与海》1950）。海明威是美利坚民族的精神丰碑。
20年代是海明威文学创作的早期，他写出了《在我们的时代里》、《春潮》、《没有女人的男人》和长篇小说《太阳照样升起》、《永别了，武器》等作品。这一时期，正值西方世界沉沦为爱略特在社会崩溃背后所看到的荒原时期，长篇小说《太阳照样升起》就是写战后一群流落欧洲的青年的生活情景以及他们精神世界的深刻变化。小说主人公杰克·巴恩斯是一名美国记者，战争毁掉了他的性能力。他爱上了一名英国护士勃瑞特·艾希利，后者也倾心于他，但他们无法结合。
一个美国作家罗伯特·柯恩——一个对生活颇多虚妄与浪漫幻想的人也爱上了勃瑞特，但她并不喜欢他。这一群历经沧桑的青年，战后浪迹欧洲大陆，整日无所事事，聚饮、争吵或殴斗。战争夺取了他们的亲人，给他们留下了肉体上和精神上的创伤，他们对战争极度厌恶，对公理、传统价值观产生了怀疑，对人生感到厌倦、迷惘和懊丧。小说从一个独特的角度谴责了战争，具有反战色彩。小说因写了一代人的迷惘而成了“迷惘的一代”文学流派的代表作。
《永别了，武器》（又译《战地春梦》）是海明威的代表作。他以反对帝国主义战争为主题，揭示了“迷惘的一代”出现的历史原因，控诉了战争毁灭人的理想和幸福，戕害人们的心灵，并使千百万无辜生因此涂炭。这篇作品显露了海明威散文风格的基本特色和“现代叙事艺术”。作品故事情节简单而意境纯一，语言朴实无华，句子短小凝练，环境描写达到情景交融。
40年代，他根据在非洲的见闻和印象写了《非洲的青山》、《乞力马扎罗山的雪》， 还发表了《法兰西斯·玛贝康短暂的幸福》。1932年发表了《午后之死》， 尊奉美国建筑师罗德维希的名言“越少，就越多”，使作品趋于精炼，缩短了作品与读者之间的距离，提出了“冰山原则”，只表现事物的八分之一，使作品充实、含蓄、耐人寻味。
1939年，海明威以西班牙内战为背景创作了著名的长篇小说《丧钟为谁而鸣》， 这是一部承前启后的重要作品。它写了国际纵队的志愿人员罗伯特·乔丹为配合一支游击队的一次炸桥行动而牺牲的感人故事，这部作品是海明威中期创作中思想性最强的作品之一，在相当程度上克服和摆脱了孤独、迷惘与悲泣的情绪，把个人融入到社会中，表现出为正义事业而献身的崇高精神。
二战后，海明威创作进入晚期，其代表作为《老人与海》，由于小说中体现了人在“充满暴力与死亡的现实世界中”表现出来的勇气而获得1954年的诺贝尔文学奖。 海明威一生的创作在现代文学史上留下了光辉的一页。他以自己的经历披露了当权者的伪善和现实的残酷，刻画了美国年轻一代的迷惘情绪，作品中洋溢着对劳动人民的热爱，在探索艺术创作的途径中使现实主义在开放性的兼容并蓄中获得了新的光采！

威廉·福克纳
William Faulkner
1897-1962
[美国]
威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner，1897-1962）美国作家，生于美国密西西比州新奥尔巴尼的一个庄园主家，南北战争后家道中落。
第一次世界大战期间，福克纳在空军服过役。战后入大学，其后从事过各种职业并开始写作。《士兵的报酬》（1926）发表后，福克纳被列入"迷惘的一代"，但很快与他们分道扬镖。《萨拉里斯》（1929）问世之后，福克纳的创作进入高峰斯。他发现"家乡那块邮票般大小的地方倒也值得一写，只怕一辈子也写不完"。怀着这样的信念，他把19篇长篇和70多篇短篇小说纺织在"约克纳帕塌法世系"里，通过南方贵族世家的兴衰，反映了美国独立战争前夕到第二次世界大战之间的社会现实，创伤了20世纪的"人间喜剧"。长篇小说《喧哗与骚动》和《我弥留之际》（1930）、《圣殿》（1931）、《八月之光》（1932）、《押沙龙，押沙龙》（1936）等现代文学的经典之作。
福克纳后期的主要作品有《村子》（1940）、《闯入者》（1948）、《寓言》（1954）、《小镇》（1957）和《大宅》（1959）等。此外还有短篇小说、剧本和诗歌。
福克纳虽是南方重要作家，但他的作品当时并不受重视，直到1946年美国著名的文学批评家马尔科姆·考莱编选了《袖珍本福克纳文集》，又写了一篇有名的序言之后，福克纳才在文坛上引起重视。特别是萨特、马尔洛等人的赏识，使福克纳名声大噪。
在艺术上，福克纳受弗洛伊德影响，大胆地大胆地进行实验，采用意识流手法、对位结构以及象征隐喻等手段表现暴力、凶杀、性变态心理等，他的作品风格千姿百态、扑朔迷离，读者须下大功夫才能感受其特有的审美情趣。
1949年，"因为他对当代美国小说作出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献"，福克纳获诺贝尔文学奖。

收起

Herman Melville 赫尔曼.梅尔维尔 代表作《白鲸》美国小说家、诗人。
Mark Twain 马克·吐温代表作有《汤姆历险记》及《顽童历险记》美国幽默大师、作家。
Ezra Pound 庞德 代表作《在一个地铁站》。被喻为美国20世纪文学界的邓小平。
Thomas Stearns Eliot 艾略特,代表作《荒园》， 美国诗人。<...

全部展开

Herman Melville 赫尔曼.梅尔维尔 代表作《白鲸》美国小说家、诗人。
Mark Twain 马克·吐温代表作有《汤姆历险记》及《顽童历险记》美国幽默大师、作家。
Ezra Pound 庞德 代表作《在一个地铁站》。被喻为美国20世纪文学界的邓小平。
Thomas Stearns Eliot 艾略特,代表作《荒园》， 美国诗人。
(Ernest Hemingway l899～1961) 海明威代表作《太阳照样升起》美国小说家
William Faulkner 威廉福克纳，代表作《美国的悲剧》美国小说家。
HUHU累啊！希望能对你有帮助。

收起

每个作家都可给你找一大堆,装不下了.给个信箱.我发到你那吧.
mark twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, an...

全部展开

每个作家都可给你找一大堆,装不下了.给个信箱.我发到你那吧.
mark twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
Although Twain was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit were keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Nikola Tesla, Helen Keller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Twain died in 1910 and is buried in Elmira, New York.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Growing Up
1.2 Roughing it out West
1.3 Pen names
2 Career overview
3 Trivia
4 Epigrams
5 Bibliography
6 References
7 See also
7.1 Works by Mark Twain
7.2 Studying Twain
7.3 Twain's Life

[edit]
History

The Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri[edit]
Growing Up
Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. When he was four, his family moved to Hannibal, a port town on the Mississippi River which later served as the inspiration for the fictional town of St. Petersberg in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Missouri had been admitted as a slave state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise, and from an early age Twain was exposed to the institution of slavery, a theme which Twain was to later explore in his work. In 1847, when Twain was 11, his father fell ill with