Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal. Twain is best known for the novels set in his boyhood world beside the Mississippi River, The Adventures of Tom SawyerExternal (1876) and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnExternal (1884). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From the