1835.11.30,born in Samuel Langhorne Clemens
12, his father died of pneumonia
15,he got a job working for his brother Orion's newspaper The Hannibal Western Union
became a cub pilot on a steamboat on the Mississsippi River
1861, he lost his job because of the Civil
served in confederate military
he did not work out
he headed west with his brother
he made his way to San Francisco and began his career again as a journalist
1865,Twain 's first big literary break with the publication of Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
it was a huge success and reprinted and over the country
1869, first bestseller-The Innocents Abroad
one of the most successful and widely renowned travel narratives of American literature
1876, Mark Twain's best known and best loved books-The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
1885, Mark Twain's best known and best loved books- Huckleberry Finn
shows the possibility of making genuine moral changes in a world is dominated by racism and other forms of human folly
a book that was able to capture the vernaculer speech of different classes along the Mississippi
1910, died at his Connecticut home