Charles Langdon introduced his sister to Mark Twain, but his impact on Elmira extends beyond a connection to the famous ...

(For example: education, family life, financial circumstances ... using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author ...

Another sign suggests that “Mark Twain and his family enjoyed what the author would later call the happiest and most productive years of his life in their Hartford.” That domestic bliss and ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...