Life On The Mississippi, Part 7‪.‬

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910), better known as Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist. Twain used different pen names before deciding on "Mark Twain". He signed humorous and imaginative sketches as "Josh" until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass" for a series of humorous letters. He's the most famous works “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885), which are loving by all children in the world! He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature". “Life on the Mississippi” is a memoir written and published by Mark Twain in 1883. It is his memories about the days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. Here is the ninth part of this biographical story. Let's read and step into the memories of one of the most famous writer in the world!