Mark Twain - A History of a Great American Writer

You are a Journalism student from the University of Missouri.  Your final thesis is to create a personal interest piece about a prolific writer from the area.  In order to obtain the facts and information required to produce your final product, you must interview that famous person.

You selected Samuel Langhorne Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain...one of the most prolific writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a local Missourian.  To achieve your goal, you will learn the biographical history of Mark Twain, create 20 probing questions based on the knowledge you have obtained, write several drafts, produce a magazine article, and write an essay about Mark Twain.