“Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Mark Twain then died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut” (Biography.com Editors). Samuel L. Clemens was Mark Twain’s real name as Twain was his pen name. “Mark Twain’s father’s name was John Marshall Clemens and his mother’s name was Jane Lampton …show more content…
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were very popular during Mark Twain’s time. Even though, people did not like Roughing It as much as other novels, “tens of thousands of readers are familiar with Roughing It”(Messent and Budd). “Twain’s West has been mostly ignored in subsequent popular depictions of the frontier, which concentrate on the bold-faced named outlaws, lawmen, and Indians like Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and Crazy Horse. Which showed classic early Twain: rowdy, rambunctious and very funny”(Katz). “Mark Twain wrote Roughing It because of his travels through Nevada Territory and to California, his varied life their, colorful personalities” (Enotes). Mark Twain’s Roughing It is more popular now than it was back in the 1870’s. Most novels that Mark Twain wrote were based off of his travels and