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Mark Twain: Quarry Farm: 1870–1900 Elmira: Twain's family visited his wife's family home every summer for 30 years. Three of his daughters were born here. Today, it is used as a retreat for Mark Twain scholars. [64] Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman Birthplace: 1819–1824 West Hills
Mark Twain's editor's desk preserved at the Mark Twain Territorial Enterprise Museum, Virginia City, NV One of his more popular pieces in 1862 was the unsigned "Petrified Man" in which Clemens claimed that a petrified man who had lived "close about a century ago" had been found "south of Gravelly Ford."
The writer and humorist Samuel Clemens, then a reporter on the local Territorial Enterprise newspaper first used the pen name Mark Twain in Virginia City in February 1863 [29] [30] Clemens lived in Virginia City and wrote for the Enterprise from fall 1862 until May 1864. His departure was to avoid a duel with a local newspaper editor upset over ...
The Clemenses lived in Buffalo, New York, from 1869 to 1871. Twain owned a stake in the Buffalo Express newspaper and worked as an editor and writer. [53] [50] While they were living in Buffalo, their son Langdon died of diphtheria in 1872 at the age of 19 months. They had three daughters: Susy (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962), [54] and Jean ...
Mark Twain: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: Haliford, Yorkshire: J. B. Priestley: They Walk in the City: A Yorkshire industrial town suffering the economic crisis of the 1930s, similar to real towns well known to writer from his own childhood Harfang: C. S. Lewis: The Silver Chair: Harlow, Maine Stephen King: The Body: Harrison, Ohio Stephen ...
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [ 3 ]
The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club , it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain , an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". [ 1 ]
Twain met biographer Albert Bigelow Paine in 1906 while living in New York City. He decided to purchase 195 acres of land in Redding where Paine lived, [ 1 ] purchasing his first parcel there March 24, 1906, and buying additional acreage in May and September that year.