Where can I find info about Mark Twain?
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Mark Twain\nSamuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer.\n\nAlthough he was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit was keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including such diverse people as Booker T. Washington, Helen Keller and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Regarding his work, another American author William Faulkner, is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs."\n\nSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, the third of four surviving children of John and Jane Clemens.\n\nWhen he was four years old, the family moved to the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, hoping their fortunes would improve there. It was this town and its inhabitants that the author Mark Twain later put to such imaginative use in his most famous works, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).\n\nClemens' father died in 1847, leaving many debts. The oldest son, Orion, soon began publishing a newspaper and Sam began contributing to it as a journeyman printer and occasional writer. Some of the liveliest and most controversial stories in Orion's paper came from the pen of his younger brother--usually when Orion was out of town. Clemens also traveled to St. Louis and New York City to earn a living as a printer.\n\nBut the lure of the Mississippi eventually drew Clemens to a career as a steamboat pilot, a profession he later claimed would have held him to the end of his days, recounting his experiences in his book Life on the Mississippi (1883). Clemens said that the characters he met on the river were a great help to him as he enjoyed reading more. He met every sort of character on the river. There was Horace Bixby (later the head pilot of the Union fleet), who took him on as a cub pilot, Mr. Brown, a tyrannical pilot who made Clemens feel like an emancipated slave when he no longer had to put up with him. His younger brother Henry was killed in a boiler explosion. But the Civil War and the advent of railroads put an end to commercial steamboat traffic in 1861, and Clemens had to look for a new job.\n\nAfter a brief stint with a local militia (an experience he recounted in his short story, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" in 1885), he escaped further contact with the war by going west in July of 1861 with Orion, who had been appointed secretary to the territorial governor of Nevada. The two traveled for two weeks across the Plains by stagecoach to the silver-mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.\n\nSam Clemens lived a rich and eventful life, which covered the years 1835-1910. He had many unique experiences before his first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in 1867, including stints as a printer, a steamboat pilot, a gold prospector, a journalist in Nevada and San Francisco during the height of the Gold Rush, and a renowned lecturer, known for his storytelling and stage presence. He was married to Olivia Langdon for 34 years, until her death in 1904, and fathered three daughters — Susy, Clara, and Jean. \n\nUnder the pen name Mark Twain, Sam Clemens published over 30 works of literature — encompassing satire, historical fiction, short stories, and nonfiction. Many of his writings have reached the pinnacles of American and world literature, including the timeless Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. \n\nMark Twain is one of America's best-known authors. Born in Florida Missouri in 1835, Twain moved to Hannibal Missouri in 1839. He wrote classics such as
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on google.  Or go to the local library.
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try finding the information on this website
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Use google. Sometimes you can dig up a lot of useful info.
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You can find it here:\nhttp://www.twainquotes.com/Influence.html
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web.gc.cuny.edu/Americanstudies/f04desc.htm - 32k \n\nhttp://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=b-DTQwA4lDEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&sig=8XamFcHRWByMhSjN-tmp-Zj1BR4&dq=+influences+of+society+on+Thea+Adventures+of+Tom+Sawyer+by+Mark+Twain%3F+&prev=http://scholar.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3D%2Binfluences%2Bof%2Bsociety%2Bon%2BThea%2BAdventures%2Bof%2BTom%2BSawyer%2Bby%2BMark%2BTwain%253F%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D\n\n\nor just google it
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi..this will help a lot
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go to google and type in puff daddy combs and they will give you all his info!
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http://www.northernalaska.com/\n\nhttp://www.northern.org/artman/publish/\nindex.shtml
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I haven't done a paper about him but I have edited a children's nonfiction book about him. What kind of information do you need? There's lots of good, interesting information out there about him. Check out the websites below and then go to your library!
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If the information you're after relates to a particular site then http://www.alexa.com is a good place to start.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_lincoln\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=abraham+lincoln+bio&btnG=Google+Search\nI would start there, but the second one requires some effort.
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This is an amazing site if you are simply looking for a way to look up information in the classics:\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php\n\n"Features over 10000 online books free to the public"\nhttp://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/\n\nhttp://www.thefreelibrary.com/\n\nTry typing "Free Online Library" into a Google.com search, there are many.
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You'll find information on Willie Mays (not Mayes) at:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays\nhttp://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/may0bio-1
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www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/ biography/fghij/harris_marvin.html\n\nhttp://aurora.icaap.org/archive/harris.html\n\nhttp://grids.jonmattox.com/people/harris.html\n\nhttp://faculty.ircc.edu/faculty/jlett/AAA%20Paper%20on%20Harris.htm
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This could be a trick question.  "Mark Twain" is a fictional name.  He never lived or died.  But Samuel Clemens, who was the author writing under the pen name of Mark Twain, died in Redding Connecticut, at his home there, named "Stormfield."  The date was April 21, 1910.  He had predicted that he would go out with the comet (Halley's Comet) which appeared when he was born and which indeed came back in April 1910.
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Read some biographies about Mark Twain. They may say where they came from in his mind. Most likely they were created from parts of his own personality, or from personalities of his friends when he was young.