Clemens, also called Mark Twain, became known as the Great American author through several famous novel’s. His two most famous pieces of literature were, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These novel’s had a huge impact American Literature, and are still being read today. Growing up with a normal life Twain always dreamed of wealth and happiness and set out to achieve this dream. He realized that to be able to succeed with his career he need to first achieve maturity. He moved from town to town looking for work and was barely scraping by until he got a job as a publisher for a newspaper, and began publishing some of his smaller works. He eventually started to become well known and his career took off. This idea of starting from little to growing up to fame and wealth was what gave Twain the title of the “Great American Writer”. Sarah Churchwell said “Mark Twain: not an American but the American” (Churchwell). This quote shows how big of a impact Twain had with this idea of The American
Clemens, also called Mark Twain, became known as the Great American author through several famous novel’s. His two most famous pieces of literature were, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These novel’s had a huge impact American Literature, and are still being read today. Growing up with a normal life Twain always dreamed of wealth and happiness and set out to achieve this dream. He realized that to be able to succeed with his career he need to first achieve maturity. He moved from town to town looking for work and was barely scraping by until he got a job as a publisher for a newspaper, and began publishing some of his smaller works. He eventually started to become well known and his career took off. This idea of starting from little to growing up to fame and wealth was what gave Twain the title of the “Great American Writer”. Sarah Churchwell said “Mark Twain: not an American but the American” (Churchwell). This quote shows how big of a impact Twain had with this idea of The American