His prolific literary legacy, with titles like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn" or "Prince and Beggar", earned him the title "father of American literature" as it defined the writer William Faulkner in 1955.
In his obituary was felt that Mark Twain joker comic evolved from "one of the great literary figures of his time", while recognition of his contemporaries did not soften its end, marked by family tragedies and the loss of their loved ones. Biography
Twain's origins tell much of his later work: was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida (Missouri, USA), but it was the port of Hannibal, where he moved with his family to four years, setting the edge of the Mississippi in which raids are inspired by Tom and Huck, in which the author reflects many of his experiences early.
Among them, its relationship with slavery , who lived nearby in Mississippi, a state that allowed, and at home, because his father was a slave and one of his uncles had several, which young Sam spent time listening to their stories and spiritual songs.
A recurring theme in an extensive production but as a writer began in his newspaper articles, profession that came after a difficult journey, with just 18, took him to New York, where he worked in various publications.
In 1857 he returned to Mississippi and after engaging in pilot boats on the river, the outbreak of civil war (1861-1865) forced him to abandon this work and led him to Nevada, where he intended to devote himself to search for gold.
soon returned to journalism in the "Territorial Enterprise" in Virginia, where he first used the pseudonym would happen to posterity.
The first turning point in his career as a writer came in 1865 with the publication in different newspapers of the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of skulls district."
Twain achieved a notable success with this story but even more with their travel articles, compiled after a book, "Guide for innocent travelers" (1869).
While continuing his career as a journalist and began the writer, Twain moved to several cities, he married Olivia Langdon and gave birth to her first daughter, Susy, who died at two years of diphtheria.
A drama that led him to pour into social criticism before focusing on a fiction, however, always had a strong background of reality clearly demonstrating the anthropological vocation of the writer.
In 1876 came The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , that went far beyond the children's literature in which was framed in the first place and pointing the social aspect that the writer would always books.
"Prince and the Pauper" (1881), "Life on the Mississippi" (1883), "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889), which is undoubtedly his most famous work, " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "(1884), which satirizes slavery that prevailed in the southern states.
A key and controversial topic in his works, that if one side contains harsh criticism of slavery, it also maintains positions that some critics considered ambiguous for racist content.
A hectic life
Between 1890 and 1900, Twain and his family spent traveling around the world and the writer witnessed the social, who depicted in his works and from 1901 until his death was chairman of the Anti-Imperialist League .
A life experience that made him a deep understanding of reality in which he lived and reflected in his novels. "To suppose is fine, but find it better," said Twain, who always wanted to witness.
And that realism of his stories with simple language and fun made him one of the most influential writers in American literature.
Rimer was the p great American writer that came from the east coast, the first to use a language that people seemed to speak in reality and certainly one of the first writers in the social analysis allied with simplicity .
"All American literature begins with him. There was nothing before. There is nothing after," said Ernest Hemingway.
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