Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer.

In 1835, the small town of Florida, Missouri's most famous son was born. On November 30,

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was welcomed into the world as the sixth child of John Marshall Clemens

and Jane Lampton Clemens. Little did John and Jane know that their son

Samuel would become known as Mark Twain, one of America's most famous writers.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

 (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Twain began to gain fame when his story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Twain's first book,

The Innocents Abroad, was published in 1869, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876,

and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885.

He wrote 28 books and numerous short stories, letters and sketches.