No writer in American literature is (1)__________ or more loved than Samuel Longhorn Clements. (2)__________ in Missouri in 1835, he grew (3)__________ on the bank of the Mississippi river and later adopted the (4)__________ Mark Twain. The (5)__________ environment inspired the two novels (6)__________ made him famous.: "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" ":Life on the Mississippi", told of his adventures on the river (7)__________ of that period.
Mark Twain's life as a writer started during the Civil War. At that time he (8)__________ as a newspaper man in Nevada and California. (9)__________ short story "The celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was an immediate (10)__________ and his new career began.