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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
The Center For Mark Twain Studies is a cultural humanities site associated with Elmira College. The Center manages two historic sites , the Octagonal Study and Quarry Farm , where the American author, Mark Twain , composed many of his works, including his 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . [ 1 ]
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 ]
It is narrated by Audio-Animatronic figures of Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain (who lived almost 100 years apart) with the voices of Dallas McKennon as Benjamin Franklin and John Anderson as Mark Twain. The show is presented in a theater-like auditorium, with sets and characters rising out from the stage floor to represent scenes from ...
Mark Twain Tonight! premiered on Broadway March 23, 1966, at the Longacre Theatre.It ran for 85 performances; Holbrook won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for that appearance and an Emmy Award nomination for the 1967 television broadcast (which was produced by David Susskind) on CBS.
Mark Twain in his mid-30s arrives at Quarry Farm, his summer home in Elmira, New York. He greets the audience and begins to recount how he came to be in Elmira, far from his Missouri beginnings. As he talks about the past, two characters from his book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , appear – Aunt Polly leading the very same Tom Sawyer by the ear.
Located in the district is the separately listed Mark Twain Boyhood Home. Other notable buildings include the Ice House Theatre (c. 1885), Randall House Antiques (c. 1845), Information Center (c. 1845), House of the Pilasters & Grant's Drug Store (1839-1844), "Becky Thatcher" House (c. 1840s), and the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse (1936). [2]
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.