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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemons [1835-1910]
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“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things [that] you didn't do “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
“There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire
Mark Twain {the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens} was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer.
He is most noted for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876] & "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885],
but also for his other fiction, travel writings, and his numerous pithy quotes & sayings.
than by the ones [that] you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
“In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition:
Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher In The Rye.”
— Adam Gopnik, in The New Yorker, February 2010
B I O
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worked as a river pilot 1857-61; lived in California 1864-66
official Mark Twain™ website
Mark Twain entry at Wikipedia
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
Mark Twain credits [130+ writer credits since 1907] at Internet Movie Database
Primary Works
browse books at Mark Twain Store {returns 650+ multi-language titles} at Amazon
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" [story 1865, book 1867]
After failing in several careers, Sam Clemons published a humorous short story about a jumping frog contest under his pseudonym Mark Twain in The New York Saturday Press,
and attained his first success. When he published a book of 27 similar short stories in 1867 with "Jumping Frog" as the title story, it was extremely successful, and he attained
his first fame as an author.
{The book versions on Amazon and Internet Archive are a complete mess, which this editor has neither the need nor the patience to untangle:
what you will get from any purchase from among Amazon's 116 entries is a crapshoot.}
  | "The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Sketches: First Edition" [27 stories orig Nov 1865] by Mark Twain SeaWolf Press 100th Anniv Edition 9x6 pb [6/2018] for $7.95 SeaWolf Press 100th Anniv Edition 9x6 pb [6/2018] for $7.95 SeaWolf Press 100th Anniv Edition 9x6 hardcover [6/2018] for $14.95 200-page Wentworth Press 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2019] for $23.95 Readers Digest Assn hardcover [7/92] for $44.74 1867 edition available as free 198-page online flip-book at Internet Archive 1870 edition available as free 213-page online flip-book at Internet Archive story/collection entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Celebrated Jumping Frog - Illustrated" short story [1865] by Mark Twain 10-page Kindle Edition from Jazzybee Verlag Germany [12/2013] for 99¢ 41-page Kindle Edition from indep [12/2021] for $1.99 |
Twain discovered a badly-translated unauthorized French edition of his "The Celebrated Jumping Frog" short story and proceeded to translate
that version word-for-word back into a 'rescued' English version; he then published the three versions together in 1903.
"The Jumping Frog: In English, Then In French, and Then Clawed Back Into A
Civilized Language Once More By Patient, Unremunerated Toil" [Harper & Bros. 1903]
 | Illustrated by F. Strothmann • 'A masterpiece of babelfishian nonsense'; original story begins on page 5; French-language version from the Revue de Deux Mondes, 15 July 1872 begins on page 24; the retranslation begins on page 39; a 'private history' begins on page 56; text ends at page 66.
1903 edition available as free 66/104-page online flip-book at Internet Archive the Wentworth editions contain the original story and the 'rescued' English retranslation from 1903 102-page Wentworth Press 9¼x6 pb [3/2019] for $5.50 102-page Wentworth Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/2019] for $25.55 |
"JUMP: A Frogumentary" [festival circuit 2005-2006]
 | tagline "Go for croak!" • 67-minute documentary about the famous frog jumping contest inspired by the 1865 Mark Twain story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Produced, written, directed & edited by Justin Bookey credits at IMDb • official movie site DVD available at producer website for $15.00 + free shipping to USA/Canada; contains the 67-minute feature, plus many extras Pathfinder Home Ent. color DVD [2/2010] out of prodn/used |
"The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress" [1869]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_Abroad
"Roughing It" [1872]
"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" [1873 novel] with Charles Dudley Warner
 | The novel satirizes land speculation and political corruption of the early 1870s, and the title became the common term for the excesses of the era. Twain and Warner were friends & neighbors in Hartford, Connecticut and began the book when they were challenged at dinner by their wives to write a better novel than the ladies were reading. Twain wrote the first 11 chapters, Warner the next twelve; later sections alternated, with the two men collaborating on the conclusion.
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [undated] for 99¢ annotated Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [undated] for $3.99 Quill Pen Classics 8x5½ pb [10/2008] for $14.95 Oxford Univ Press 8½x6½ hardcover [12/96] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
"A Tramp Abroad" [1880]
"The Prince and The Pauper" [1881]
"The Prince and The Pauper" [1909] two-reel short film
"The Prince and The Pauper" [1920] /tt0011604/
"The Prince and The Pauper" [1937] starring Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson /tt0029440/
"The DuPont Show of The Month: The Prince and The Pauper" [1957] TV episode /tt0213176/
"The Prince and The Pauper" (1976) TV episode /tt0424363/
"Crossed Swords" {aka "The Prince & The Pauper"} [1977] /tt0077381/
"The Prince & The Pauper" cartoon short [1990] starring Mickey Mouse {dual role} /tt0100409/
Spirit of America Bookstore's "Life On The Mississippi" []
"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889],
"The American Claimant" [1892]
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894]
"Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894]
"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896]
"Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896]
"The Mysterious Stranger" [1916]
"Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy" [abandoned 1897, printed 1969]
"A Family Sketch" unpublished Mark Twain manuscript sold at auction June 2010 for $242,500
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain"
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876]
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Tom-Sawyer-Classic-Starts/dp/1402712162/
rewritten with the intention of getting youngsters excited about reading books:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tramp_Abroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_and_the_Pauper
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Starts-Prince-Pauper/dp/1402736878/
rewritten with the intention of getting youngsters excited about reading books
http://www.amazon.com/The-Prince-Pauper-Errol-Flynn/dp/B00009M9AG/
Directed by Richard Fleischer; starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester {dual role}, Ernest Borgnine,
George C. Scott, Rex Harrison, David Hemmings, Harry Andrews & Charlton Heston (as Henry VIII}
http://www.amazon.com/Crossed-Swords-Harry-Andrews/dp/B000TXPXBO/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAf2WTJzjF8 [25:27] 8/2011
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1885]
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Novel & Movies Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
"Studio One: A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" (1952)
http://www.amazon.com/Studio-One-Connecticut-Yankee-Arthurs/dp/B000VSMUKY/
KingArthur.htm#CYIKAC
lawyer PW used fingerprint evidence in court, 8 years before Scotland Yard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudd%27nhead_Wilson
http://fiction.eserver.org/novels/puddnhead-wilson.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_Abroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Recollections_of_Joan_of_Arc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer,_Detective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Stranger
Twain requested that publication be held off until 100 years after his death
book entry at Wikipedia
"Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3" [DUE in 2015] 
Other Works by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain: Mississippi Writings [1982] Edited by Guy Cardwell
Library of America hardcover [11/82] for $23.10 includes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876], "Life On The Mississippi" [1883], "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884] & "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894] Mark Twain: Historical Romances [1994] Edited by Susan K. Harris Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/94] for $25.55 includes "The Prince and The Pauper" [1882], "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" [1889], "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" [1896] Mark Twain: "The Gilded Age" and Later Novels [2002] Edited by Hamlin L. Hill Library of America hardcover [1/2002] for $26.40 includes "The Gilded Age" [1873], "The American Claimant" [1892], "Tom Sawyer Abroad" [1894], "Tom Sawyer, Detective" [1896], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger [1916] Mark Twain: 1869 "The Innocents Abroad" & 1872 "Roughing It" [1984] Edited by Guy Cardwell Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [1/84] for $23.10 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1852–1890 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $29.20 Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1891-1910 [1992] Edited by Louis J. Budd Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/92] for $26.40 |
 | Mark Twain: "Huck Finn", "Pudd'nhead Wilson", "No. 44, Mysterious Stranger" & Other Writings [2000] Edited by Louis J. Budd & Guy Cardwell Library of America College Editions 6¾x5 pb [8/2000] for $12.95 includes novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [1884], "Pudd'nhead Wilson" [1894], "No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger" [1916], two stories, and a selection of biting essays |
BULLETIN May 2015: Scholars at University of California, Berkeley uncovered and authenticated a cache of letters and stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman at the San Francisco Chronicle (when it was called the San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle), where his job included writing a
2,000-word dispatch every day and sending it off by stagecoach for publication in the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.
news article at The Guardian, U.K. • UC Berkeley / Bancroft Library / Mark Twain Project
Stageplays, Motion Pictures, Other Media
Mark Twain credits [130+ writer credits since 1907] at Internet Movie Database
search videos/DVDs for keywords 'Mark Twain' at Amazon
 | "Mark Twain Collection" on DVD [2014]
Echo Bridge Home Ent. DVD [8/2014] for $9.99 contains 3 feature-length films: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [Paramount Pictures Feb 1938] directed by Norman Taurog, starring Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin & Mitzi Green; "Huckleberry Finn" TV movie [ABC-TV March 1975] starring Ron Howard; and "Mark Twain's Roughing It" TV movie [Hallmark Channel March 2002] starring James Garner & Robin Dunne |
"A Curious Dream" 5-minute silent short [Vitagraph Co. March 1907]
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, based on a Twain story • {this film is considered lost} •
bare credits at IMDb
"Mark Twain" silent short [Edison Mfg. Co. 1909]
The only extant footage of Mark Twain, shot at his home Stormfield by Thomas Edison; shows Twain standing, walking along the driveway, and having tea
with his two daughters • not listed at IMDb • watch online at YouTube:
short version [1:48] +
longer version, restored?/reversed [3:31]
"The Prince and The Pauper" one-reel silent short [Edison Mfg. Co. Aug 1909]
Adapted & directed by J. Searle Dawley; Cecil Spooner, Charles Ogle, William Sorelle, Mabel Trunnelle & Mark Twain
{credited as Samuel Clemens} • {this film is considered lost} •
credits at IMDb
"The Adventures of Mark Twain" biopic [1944] /tt0036582/
"The Boys In Autumn" staged in SFO 1981 with Kirk Douglas as aged Huck & Burt Lancaster as Tom Sawyer
"The Adventures of Mark Twain" Claymation [Will Vinton Prodns March 1985] /tt0088678/
Jason Robards played Mark Twain in "Mark Twain and Me" [1991]
IMAX "Mark Twain's America in 3-D" [1998];
Famous Authors - Mark Twain (DVD - 2006) /B000ETRABO/
A&E Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventure
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Mark Twain credits list [1895-2008] at Broadway Internet Database
stageplay "Sam & Laura" by Ron Powers = www.samandlauraplay.com/
 | "Mark Twain Tonight!" [CBS-TV 1967] one-man stage performance on video: directed by Paul Bogart; starring Hal Holbrook three runs on Broadway (1966, 1977 & 2005), the first won HH a Tony Award Kultur Video color DVD [11/99] for $21.93 Kultur Video color VHS [4/97] for $23.70 Sony original cast CD [1/2002] for $8.99 full credits at IMDb • Broadway credits at IBDb |
 | "The Report of My Death" one-man stageplay [2009] Stageplay written by Adam Klasfield, 'based on censored & posthumously-published Twain letters, stories, notebooks, and historical artifacts'; performed by Michael Graves; world premiere July 2009 onboard the Lilac Steamship berthed at Pier 40 in Lower Manhattan; recent performances include Santa Fe [NM] Playhouse in April 2013 and at Aux Dog Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico in May 2013. • DVD/Blu-ray not available |
 | "Citizen Twain" one-man stageplay [April 2012] Actor Val Kilmer's 10-year research on Twain left him still unclear on aspects of Twain's personality, so he devised a one-man stage performance that was first delivered in April 2012; previous venues include Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, California; Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; and Ivy Substation in Culver City, California. Scheduled venues include Wickenburg, Arizona (May 2013) and the Kirk Douglas Theatre [est. 2004] June-July 2013 in Culver City. DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • official webpage |
"Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" feature film [online release April 2015]
Announced 6/2011: “Super 8" star Joel Courtney is signed to play the iconic role of trouble-making orphan
Tom Sawyer, and Jake T. Austin will portray Huck; written & directed by Jo Kastner; filming begins in Bulgaria
this August •
latest info at IMDb
"Huck" feature film [Paramount 2013?]
Announced 3/2012: Modern-day spec script by Andy Burg to be produced at Paramount
by Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark & Matt Lopez • not yet listed on IMDb
"Finn & Sawyer" TV series [ABC-TV 2013?]
Announced 8/2012: Pilot given green light; project developed by Jason Richman & David Zabel has the two
literary characters re-meeting as young men and forming an investigative firm in bustling steampunk New Orleans •
not yet listed on IMDb
"88 Days In The Motherlode: Mark Twain Finds His Voice" documentary [DVD release Jan 2015]
 | Filmed on location in California & Nevada; premiered in Angels Camp on 21 February 2015 • Produced, written & directed by John C. Brown & Bert Simonis; featuring Matt Sweetland {as Mark Twain}, Drew Boudreau, James Caron, Vic Fischer, James Fletcher, Michelle Gordon, Rob Gordon, Ralph Krummins, Peter Leibold IV, Thomas F. Maguire (voice of Samuel Clemens) • credits at IMDb • no movie entry at Wikipedia
This 'n That Films widescreen color DVD [1/2015] out of prodn/scarce Amazon Instant Video [2015?] HD rental $1.99, HD purchase $4.99 producer website sells the DVD for $20 watch 10/2014 official trailer [1:11] online at YouTube |
 | "Mark Twain’s 88 Days In The Motherlode & Stories of The Gold Rush" [ages 10 & up; 2015] by James Fletcher schoolteacher, historian & master storyteller Jim Fletcher relied heavily on little-known passages in Mark Twain’s personal notebooks & letters, making this non-fiction work as fascinating and colorful as Twain himself Kindle Edition from Manzanita Writers Press [4/2016] for $7.99 Manzanita Writers Press 9¼x6¼ pb [7/2015] for $20.00 |
Untitled Twain/Tesla Project [C.B.S. Films - in development for 2018?]
Announced 2/2017: CBS Films acquired a pitch for "Tesla & Twain" about the famed Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla [1856-1943];
the project was written by Eric Siegel, with Brigham Taylor producing • latest info at IMDb
Kindle Editions
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browse all Mark Twain works for Kindle at Amazon
 | "The Works of Mark Twain" [2004] includes over 200 stories, novels, essays & speeches Kindle Edition from Packard Technologies [2004 edition] for $5.95 Packard Technologies 9½x6¼ hardcover [2004] out of print/used |
 | "The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2009]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2009] for $1.99 {sic} over 300 works, "with active table of contents"; illustrations by Bob Henry |
 | "Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [5/2011] for $2.99 {sic} over 300 works, "with active table of contents" |
 | "The Mark Twain Collection: His Novels, Short Stories, Speeches, and Letters" for Kindle [2012] Kindle Edition from Acheron Press [11/2012] for $1.99 {sic} |
Works About Mark Twain
 | "The Boy's Life of Mark Twain: The Story of A Man Who Made The World Laugh and Love Him" [Harper & Brothers, 1916] by Albert Bigelow Paine
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} CreateSpace 9x6 pb [6/2014] for $6.74 Æterna 9x6 pb [10/2010] for $13.04 Harper hardcover [1944] out of print/used |
"The Ordeal of Mark Twain" [192x] by Van Wyck Brooks
"Mark Twain's America" [1932] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain In Eruption" [1940] by Bernard DeVoto
"Mark Twain At Work" [1942] by Bernard DeVoto
fine bio [2003] by Justin Kaplan /0743251393/
"Mark Twain: A Life" [Free Press 2005] fine bio by Ron Powers 0743248996
fine bio [2003] by Fred Kaplan /0385477155/
docu "Beneath The Laughter" prod by Martha Jeffers 79?
"Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventures" [History Channel]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGJCmdUknA [43:49]
McMasters' "Mark Twain Encyclopedia" [1993] /082407212X/
"Lighting Out For The Territory" [1996] by Shelley Fisher Fishkin /0195105311/
CSPAN = http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/twain.asp
"Dangerous Water: A Biography of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain" [10/2001] by Ron Powers
http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Water-Biography-Became-Twain/dp/0306810867/
"Mark Twain: A Short Introduction" [11/2003] by Stephen Railton
"A Companion to Mark Twain" [1/2006] Edited by Peter Messent & Louis J. Budd
"The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion To Mark Twain" [3/2008] by Pam McAllister
http://www.amazon.com/Bedside-Bathtub-Armchair-Companion-Companions/dp/0826418139/
"Lighting Out For The Territory" [2010] by Roy Morris, Jr. /1416598669/
"Mark Twain's Other Woman" [2010] by Laura Skandera Trombley /030727344X/
fine bio [2010] by Jerome Loving /0520252578/
"The Modern Scholar: The Life and Times of Mark Twain" [2010]
14 lectures by Prof. Michael Shelden /B00435HBKA/
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"A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain" [1998] Written by Kathryn Lasky, Illustrated by Barry Moser Harcourt Children's Books 10¼x8¼ hardcover [4/1998] out of print/40+ used |
 | "River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain" [ages 4-8; 2003] by William Anderson, Illustrated by Dan Andreasen HarperCollins 11x8½ hardcover [2/2003] for $16.19 |
 | "The Oxford Companion To Mark Twain" [2003] by Gregg Camfield Oxford Univ Press 10½x7¾ hardcover [2/2003] for $45.99 |
 | "American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain" [ages 4-8; 2003] by Don Brown Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2006 edition] for $6.95 HMH Books for Young Readers 10x10 pb [5/2006] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin 10x10¼ hardcover [9/2003] out of print/40+ used |
 | "Mark Twain For Kids: His Life & Times - 21 Activities" [ages 9 & up; 2004] by R. Kent Rasmussen Kindle Edition from Chicago Review Press [2004 edition] for $9.56 Chicago Review Press 8½x11 pb [7/2004] for $13.45 Paw Prints 8¾x11 library hardcover [6/2008] for $23.95 |
 | "Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur" [2007] by Peter Krass Kindle Edition from Wiley & Sons [5/2009] for $13.77 Wiley & Sons 8¾x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $20.55 |
 | Cover Story "The Dangerous Mind of Mark Twain" 14 July 2008 TIME Magazine's Annual 'Making of America' Issue Inside The Issue (contents online) |
 | "The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn" [ages 7-10; 2011] by Robert Burleigh, Illustrated by Barry Blitt Kindle Edition from Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2014] for $12.99 Atheneum Books for Young Readers 11x8 hardcover [3/2011] for $14.21 |
 | "The Bohemians: Mark Twain and The San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature" [2014] by Ben Tarnoff Members of San Francisco's Bohemian Club created a new American literary style utterly different than the elite & effete literature of the East Coast establishment; members circa 1863 to 1870 included Mark Twain, Bret Harte, gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard, and later California Poet Laureate Ina Coolbrith. Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [3/2014] for $11.99 Penguin Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2014] for $20.93 |
 | "Chasing The Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour" [2016] by Richard Zacks
Kindle Edition from Doubleday/Random House [4/2016] for $14.99 Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2016] for $18.09 |
Fiction Involving Mark Twain
"Scavengers" [1987] by Yvonne Montgomery = boss killed over Twain ms
"The Great Twain Robbery" [Write Way Publng 1994] by Robert R. Guntrum
desperate Henry J. Nash steals an original Mark Twain manuscript and finds himself running
from the FBI, the Army, two insurance agents, and an impassioned Twain lover
"Riverworld" books by Philip Jose Farmer
Image Gallery
 poster for Mark Twain sternwheeler riverboat ride at Disneyland, California |
 photo of the Mark Twain sternwheeler riverboat at Disneyland, California |
Friends & Family
close friend Henry Rogers [1840-1909]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Rogers
close friend William Dean Howells [1837-1920]
"My Mark Twain: Reminiscences" [1910]
brother Orion Clemens [1825-97] apptd Sec'y of Nevada Terr 1861
sister Pamela Clemens Moffett [1827-1904]
brother Pleasant [1828–29]
sister Margaret [1830-39]
brother Benjamin [1832-42]
Sam Clemens was born in 1835
brother Henry Clemens [1838-58]
visionary inventor Nikola Tesla [1856-1943]
wife Olivia Langdon Clemens [1870–1904]
son Langdon Clemens [1870-71]
daughter Olivia Susan 'Susy' Clemens [1872-96]
daughter Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch Samossoud [1874-1962]
daughter Jane Lampton 'Jean' Clemens [1880–1909]
Hannibal [MO] C.V.B.
Mark Twain Boyhood Home [resident 1839-53] & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri
Mark Twain House [resident 1874-91] & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut
Stormfield House [resident 1900-1910] in Redding, Connecticut
L i n k s
official Mark Twain™ website
The Year of Mark Twain 2010 {defunct?}
Mark Twain entry at Wikipedia
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds
Mark Twain credits [130+ writer credits since 1907] at Internet Movie Database
listed #16 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
Mark Twain Papers Project at UC Berkeley
http://www.twainquotes.com
http://www.twaintimes.net/
Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor [est. 1998]
http://www.marktwaincollector.com
PS's 'Mark Twain in Cyberspace' fansite
Mark Twain Museum at the Territorial Enterprise, 53 South C Street in Virginia City, Nevada
browse books at Mark Twain Store {returns 650+ multi-language titles} at Amazon
browse Mark Twain videos/DVDs at Amazon
browse audio
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/huchompg.html
http://www.marktwainmedicalcenter.org/
here on the Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
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