生于: 1835年11月30日
死于: 1910年4月
萨缪尔克莱门斯 (Samuel
Langhorne Clemens) 出生于密苏里州的佛罗里达，后来随家人迁居到密苏里州的汉尼拔 (Hannibal) ，并在此处长大成人。虽然在他的生命早期，他曾做过一些不同的工作，但克莱门斯最为人所熟知的是他的作家身份，他使用马克吐温 (Mark
Twain) 来当做他的写作笔名，五年后才出版了他的第一本一流作品。吐温是一位旅行记者、幽默文学家、作家及演讲者，他最着名的作品是汤姆历险记 (The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer) 及顽童流浪记 (The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 。他在密西西比河沿岸的汉尼拔渡过他的孩童时期，这个地方也成为他的灵感来源，丰富了他的水上历险故事。 吐温的足迹踏遍世界各地并以幽默及精彩的演讲迷惑台下的听众，一如他书中的笔触。
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, and later moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up. Although he had a number of odd jobs early in his life, Clemens is best known as a writer who took the pen name of Mark Twain about five years after he published his first major work. Twain was a traveling journalist, humorist, writer, and lecturer whose most famous novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His childhood in Hannibal along the Mississippi River inspired colorful tales of adventures on the waterway. Twain traveled around the world and he dazzled audiences far and wide with lectures filled with the same humor and spirit found in his writings. |
