feb 22, 1883 - Mark Twain releases "Life on the Mississippi"
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Life on the Mississippi was the book that launched the now well known Samuel Clemens’ career as a “serious” author. Clemens, more well known by the title Mark Twain, paints Mississippi steamboat living and the workings of the river itself as a tribute to that great river. Twain uses this novel as a combination of an autobiography of his early days as a steamboats man, and a collection of anecdotes about the people who made their living both along the great river and on it. It was from this work that the novel Huckleberry Finn would emerge.
In essence him working along side steamboats molded him into the writer that he became.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
http://www.utm.edu/staff/jmiller/honors2005/9twain/zach.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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