Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was the fifth surviving child of John and Jane Lampton Clemens. The work that first brought Twain literary acclaim was "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County") in 1865. Also, as a journalist during those early literary days, Twain traveled to the Sandwich Islands, Europe and the Middle East in 1867. He shaped his travel adventures into several books: "The Innocents Abroad" (1869) and "Roughing It" (1872), which depicted West Coast travels. Find the collected works of Mark Twain, a review of Mark Twain's autobiography, and a chronology.