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Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, of a Virginian family. He was 1. b______ up in Hannibal, Missouri. At the2. a_____ of 12,his father died ,he became a printer .To make a 3.l______, he wrote for his brother's newspaper. He later worked as a licensed Mississippi river-boat pilot though he was very 4.y______.

No one knew the 5.e_____ date when Twain left for California, and worked in San Francisco as a reporter. He visited Hawaii as a correspondent for The Sacramento Union, publishing letters on his trip and giving lectures. He set out on a world tour, traveling in France and Italy. His experiences were recorded in 1869 in The Innocents Abroad, which made him famous 6.a______ the world.

The success as a writer made him rich enough to 7.m_____ the beautiful girl Olivia Langdon in 1870. They moved next year to Hartford. Twain continued to lecture in the United States and England. Between 1876 and 1884 he published several masterpieces, Tom Sawyer (1881) and The Prince And The Pauper (1881).He became a 8.s______ writer.

In the 1890s Twain lost most of his earnings in financial speculations and in the failure of his own publishing firm. To recover from the bankruptcy, he started a world lecture tour. Twain toured New Zealand, Australia, India, and South Africa. He wrote many 9.w______ such as The Tragedy Of Pudd'head Wilson (1884), Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc (1885), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and the travel book Following The Equator (1897).They were translated into many 10.l______ later.

He died on April 21, 1910

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