我最喜欢的作家马克吐温英语作文 The Mark Twain in my eyes To most Americans, Mark Twain is a great writer of exploration, patriotism, romance and humor, but I see him as a cynical, bitter man struck by the depths of life's tragedy. Mark Twain spent more than a third of his life wandering around the country, and then traveling around the world as a writer and a public speaker.Mark Twain, born Samuel Long Herne Clemens, took his pen name from the signal language he heard while working on a steamship. In Mark Twain's youth, the Mississippi Valley was the geographic center of the United States and the transportation artery of the central United States, where large amounts of goods dispersed.In 1857, young Mark Twain stepped into the Mississippi River basin as a small steam ship navigator.In this job, he came into a variety of characters and saw a colorful world.All of this has had a profound influence on his later work. After the civil war, Mark Twain left the Mississippi Valley and joined the Confederate guerrillas.But the team tried to avoid fighting the enemy forces.Mark Twain left the team angrily. He came west again, lured by the gold rush in Nevada, but was eventually frustrated by his failure.After bankruptcy and frustration, he accepted his job as a reporter for the Virginia City Territory Development Newspaper, and then went into literature.Mark Twain began experimenting, but was forced to leave the city and flee to the gold mines in the Sacramento Valley.His depiction of the pioneers there made him accepted in the West Coast region.Mark Twain spent the winter of 1864 at the Angels mines.In boredom, he recorded a account of a story he heard that day that determines the course of his career: 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/397df7003a68011ca300a6c30c2259010202f32e.html