1835 Born in Florida, Missouri (November 30).
1839 Moved to Hannibal, Missouri.
1853 Left home to become itinerant printer.
1857 Became apprentice pilot on the Mississippi River.
1861 After two weeks in the Confederate Army, resigned commission and went to the Nevada territory with brother Orion.
1862 Prospected unsuccessfully, then joined Virginia City Enterprise as a reporter - first used pen name “Mark Twain”.
1864 Joined the San Francisco Morning Call.
1866 Visited Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), became lecturer. wrote travel letters to the Sacramento Union and the San Francisco Alta California.
1867 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County published. Joined excursion to Mediterranean.
1870 Married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York (February 2). Settled in Buffalo as editor of The Buffalo Express.
1871 Moved to Hartford, Connecticut.
1872 Susy Clemens born. Roughing It published.
1873 Collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner on The Gilded Age.
1874 Clara Clemens born.
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published.
1878 Family lived in Europe.
1880 Jean Clemens born. A Tramp Abroad published.
1882 The Prince and the Pauper published.
1883 Life on the Mississippi published.
1884 Published U.S. Grant’s Personal Memoirs. Began investment in Paige Typesetter.
1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published.
1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court published.
1891 Family moved to Europe.
1894 The Tragedy of Pudd’n Head Wilson published.
1896 Lecture tour around the world. Susy Clemens died in Hartford (August 18). Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc published.
1897 Following the Equator published.
1900 Lived in New York.
1904 Olivia Langdon Clemens died in Florence, Italy (June 5).
1907 Received LLD from Oxford University.
1908 Moved to “Stormfield,” the house he built in Redding, Connecticut.
1909 Jean Clemens died (December 24).
1910 Mark Twain died in Redding, Connecticut (April 21).
RICHARD THOMAS (Mark Twain) won an Emmy® Award and received multiple Golden Globe Award nominations for his starring role as “John-Boy Walton” in the television drama The Waltons. He is most recognizable to contemporary television audiences for his roles in the hit series Ozark, The Americans, Billions, and the original Stephen King mini-series It. His feature film performances include The Unforgivable, Wonder Boys, Last Summer, Red Sky at Morning, and Taking Woodstock. He has been seen in acclaimed performances on stage including the revival of The Little Foxes, for which he received a Tony® Award nomination, Our Town, You Can’t Take it With You, The Great Society, Race, Democracy, Incident at Vichy (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Stendhal Syndrome (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, An Enemy of the People, Tiny Alice, The Front Page, The Fifth of July, innumerable Shakespeare productions, and his professional debut at eight years old in Sunrise at Campobello. Across the country he has starred in the national tours of The Humans (Elliot Norton Award), Twelve Angry Men, and for three years as “Atticus Finch” in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Thomas previously served as the Honorary Chair of the National Corporate Theatre Fund, a position also held by his predecessor Hal Holbrook.
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