Biographie de Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835 and adopted the name Mark Twain for newspaper work in the early 1860s after working as a printer and a Mississippi pilot for several years. Short stories made his name, and his fame spread with The Innocents Abroad (1869), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), among numerous other publications. By the time of his death in 1910 he had long been a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic.