MARK TWAIN (1835–1910), considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, a setting that inspired his two best-known novels, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER and ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Twain and his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, had four children --- a son, Langdon, who died as an infant, and three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean.

Mark Twain