Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens is his real name. He was born on Nov. 30 1835. At a young age he had very poor health and was kept inside most of the time. At age 12 his father died and he went to school to be an printers apprentice. He became a river pilot and Mark Twain came from river talk. It means it is free to move on. He then became a newspaper and married Olivia Langdon. They had four children but three died before the age of twenty. By the end of his writing career he had written over 30 books. Before writing under Mark Twain Samuel used Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass as his pen name. His books are controversial because of the use of words for African Americans and the fact that he uses many African Americans in his stories as main charaters was controverial.

Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Ex: the irony of someones reply when you ask how their weekend was and they say Great when really they worked all weekend.

Jules Verne was a Frence writer. He was writing books at the same time as Mark Twain. He wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.