Samuel Langhorne Clemens was a) BORN/BIRTHED/BORNED on November 30, 1835 in Florida Missouri. His pen name is Mark Twain. He worked b)WITH/AROUND/FOR newspapers and as a riverboat pilot before he c) BECOME/BECAME/BECOMED a writer.
Clemens d)WAS/WERE/ARE best known for his works in fiction and especially for his e)WORK/USE/BOOK of humour. His first f)WRITTEN/COPIED/PUBLISHED story, in 1865, was The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
Twain’s most g)HAPPY/FAMOUS/SAD novel is Huckleberry Finn, which has become very respected, considered h)BY/FOR/TO many to be Twain's best work. This story of a white boy who helps a black man escape i)FREEDOM/SLAVERY/LIFE in the southern United States is known for its humanity.
Twain's style was usually informal and humorous. This made him different from many j)SERIOUS/RICH/IMPORTANT 19th century writers whose books he disliked. For example, he greatly disliked Jane Austen's works, such as Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and famously remarked, "She makes me detest all her people, without reserve."
Mark Twain’s most famous k)DIARIES/NOVELS/TRIPS are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).