Mark Twain was greatly known for his moralistic and humorous writing. It was often ironic writing that exposed corruption and hypocrisy while examining small-town life in America during the 19th century. A great example of his writing would be, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." He uses all of his types of writing including humorous, moralistic, and ironic details of his writing. Many critics gave him great reviews on this short story because of the way he portrayed it to seem just as the place he studied to begin writing it over. Overall many critics admire and praise Twain's work as well as many other people did and still do. How great of a writer do you think Mark Twain was, lets hear your criticism.
Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 and died on April 21, 1910 (Bloom, P 48). He was born in Missouri, Florida. His parents were John Marshall Clemens and Jane Langhorne Clemens. His original name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens until he became a professional writer and adopted the name Mark Twain. He also began his writing in the 1850's.His father John Marshal Clemens was the judge for the town of Hannibal, Missouri. Before he began his literary career he held many diverse jobs ranging from being a river boat pilot and an occasional gold miner to working as a journeyman printer. In the year of 1847 is when he began working as a printer's apprentice in Hannibal, Missouri, and thereafter began working for his brother Orion's newspaper. Then in the late 1850's he began writing for another newspaper and it was called the Keokuk Post (Milne, P 163). Between the years of 1853 through 1856 he traveled to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia as a journeyman printer. Shortly after he apprenticed himself .
to become a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River and earned his pilot license between the years of 1857 through 1861 (Milne, P156). From there he moved to Nevada with his brother to explore mining possibilities, and continued on to San Francisco where he worked as a journalist.
