Samuel Clemens, was born on November 30, 1835. He was born in Missouri, Florida and was the sixth child of Jane and John Clemens. When he was 4 years old, his father bought land in Hannibal, Florida, hoping to become rich, which never happened. No matter the disappointments, he kept trying and served as a merchant, lawyer, and judge until his death from pneumonia when Samuel Clemens was only 12 years old. He was forced to drop out of school and enter the workforce to care for his family. ,Samuel Clemens would try his hand at many businesses. His first job was as an apprentice at Hannibal Courier, which paid him nothing. He then went to work for his brother Orion, as a printer, editor and writer for Hannibal Western Union, where he was inspired to become a writer. He then moved on and became a printer in New York, Pittsburgh and St Louis. In St. Louis, he was inspired by Horace E. Bixby to become a sea pilot. He enjoyed the prestige and pay so much that he made it a career until the Civil War. After his career ended, he headed west to try his hand at gold and silver panning. When that venture failed, he returned to newspapers and began writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain, which meant "Two Fathoms." » (referring to 12 feet of water) (Marshall Donald, Newspaper West, P. 3). After writing, “The Celebrated Leap Frog,” Mark Twain would become famous as a humorist, American novelist, and satirist. (Rasmussen, PP. 6) (Marshall, Newspaper Week, P. 3) Mark Twain became a recognized American writer with critics like Bernard De Voto asserting: "More widely and profoundly than anyone who ever wrote books, he shared the life of America. Printer, pilot, soldier, silver miner, gold miner, child of two emigrants...... in the middle of a paper...... when he declares: "Just because you are taught something right, and everyone thinks it's right, that doesn't make it right" (Marshall, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Huckleberry Finn was removed from library shelves in 1885 for saying the "N" word. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was outraged by the use of the "N" word and "Slave Jim" and demanded that schools remove it from its readings in 1950. Marshal, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, P. 7) The characters in the story were based on two slaves named Sandy and Sam, who were owned by his family and who Mark Twain befriended during this time (Bradshaw. , Rodney PP 2-10) No matter the controversies, the language he used, and the lack of education, he certainly had many writing styles, no wonder he was still the well-known novelist loved that he was for many years.