On this day 115 years ago, on April 21, 1910 (March 12, 1910 in the lunar calendar), the American writer Mark Twain passed away. Mark Twain On April 21, 1910, a newspaper had mistakenly published a piece of news about Mark Twain's death a few years earlier. Twain saw the article. He immediately wrote to ask the newspaper to correct it. He wrote: "The news of my death is so exaggerated." Today, the news of his death became a fact. Samuel Ronghorn-Clemens, an outstanding American writer and humorist, died at the age of 74. Samuel-Clemens, alias Mark Twain. Clemens' name will forever be associated with his real and "fictional" hometown, Hannibal, Missouri. He was born on November 30, 1835, and grew up eavesdropping on other people's affairs (his father was a town magistrate). When he was 12, his father died, so young Clemens took a job at a local printing house to help support the family. A few years later, he made a good living as a river navigator. He often heard the sailors shout "Mark Twain," meaning "deep in two searches." Therefore, Mark Twain was used as his pen name. Later, his experience here is described in the book "On the Mississippi River". In March 1867, Clemens completed his first work, a collection of short stories including "The Famous Leaping Frog of Calaveras County". His other masterpieces include "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "The Prince and the Poor Child" (1882) and "The Adventures of Huck Berry Finn" (1884). Clemens was a restless man. He traveled the world, stopping to see every place, and today in Danbury, Connecticut, his creative pen tour is over. America will miss him.