Samuel Clemens, was born November 30, 1835. He was born in Missouri, Florida and was the sixth child of Jane and John Clemens. At the age of 4, his father bought a piece of land in Hannibal Florida, in hopes of becoming rich, which never happened. Despite disappointments, he kept trying, and was a shopkeeper, lawyer and judge until he died of pneumonia when Samuel Clemens was only 12 years old. He was forced to drop out of school and enter the workforce to take care of his family. ,Samuel Clemens attempted many undertakings. His first job was as an apprentice for Hannibal Courier, who paid him nothing. He then went to work for his brother Orion, as a printer, editor, and writer for Hannibal Western Union, where he was inspired to become a writer. He went on and became a printer in New York, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. While in St Louis, he was inspired by Horace E. Bixby to become a pilot at sea. He liked the prestige and pay so much that he made a career out of it until the Civil War. After his career ended, he headed West to try his hand at panning for gold and silver. When this venture failed, he returned to newspapers and began writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain, which meant "Two Fathoms." The Celebrated Leap Frog", Mark Twain would become famous as an American humorist, novelist, and satirist. (Rasmussen, PP. 6) (Marshall, Newspaper Week, P. 3) Mark Twain became a recognized American writer with critics such as Bernard De Voto stating who “more widely and deeply than anyone else who ever wrote books, shared the life of America Printer, pilot, soldier, silver miner, gold washer, son of two emigrants...... half of. paper......when he states "Just because you are taught something right, and everyone believes it is right, doesn't make it right." (Marshall, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Huckleberry Finn is pulled from the library shelves in 1885 for saying the “N” word. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became angry at the use of the “N” word and “Jim the Slave” and demanded that schools remove it from its readings in 1950. (Marshal, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, P 7) The characters in the story were based on two slaves named Sandy and Sam, who were owned by his family and whom Mark Twain befriended during that time. (Bradshaw, Rodney PP 2-10) No matter the controversies, the language he used, and the lack of education, he certainly had many styles of writing, which is no surprise why he is still the beloved novelist he has been for many years