Mark Twain was a pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November 30, 1835, in a small town in Florida, rile USA. He 1 a few naughty boys who later 2 in his stories. At the age of 12, his father died. and he began to work, first as a printer, then on a river boat. Those years on the boat went into his book “Life 3 the Mississipi”. 4 the Civil War he worked as a reporter and used Mark Twain as his pen name. The stories he wrote in this period 5 him famous and popular. He made a lot of money by writing, lecturing and running 6 publishing house. But he spent all of it on high living and 7 business. Mark Twain 8 as a “funny man”. But in fact he took a serious view of fife. Many sad things happened in his own life. All his 9 helped to shape his stories 10 showed the dark side of society. He died as an old man of 75 in 1910.