The Making of Mark Twain tells of his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, of his mastering the printer's craft and his first crude experiments in humor, of his wanderings as an eighteen-year-old journeyman printer, of his four years of piloting on the Mississippi River at the height of the steamboat era, of his absurd adventures as an amateur Confederate soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, and…
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (lahir 30 November 1835 – meninggal 21 April 1910 pada umur 74 tahun), lebih dikenal dengan nama pena-nya Mark Twain, adalah seorang novelis, penulis, dan pengajar berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Beberapa karyanya yang paling terkenal adalah The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'…