Center for Mark Twain Studies - Elmira, NY

“We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests, and billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance. We have no neighbors. It is the quietest of all quiet places, and we are hermits that eschew caves and live in the sun.” – Mark Twain

ABOUT THE CENTER FOR MARK TWAIN STUDIES

Mark Twain wrote his most famous works in an octagonal study overlooking Elmira, NY, the hometown of his wife, Olivia. For more than two decades the Clemens family summered with Olivia’s siblings at Quarry Farm. All are buried at the nearby Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1983, both Quarry Farm and the study, since relocated to the Elmira College campus, became part of the Center for Mark Twain Studies. CMTS is dedicated to serving an international community of Twain Scholars.

RecenT posts

MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “Mark Twain at The Gallows: Crime and Justice in His Western Writing” by Jarrod D. Roark
Feb17
Kevin Mac Donnell reviews a new book which focuses on Twain's time in West
Silent Work in Elmira: Letters from the Wilbur H. Siebert Underground Railroad Collection
Feb13
In our effort to preserve the history of the Underground Railroad in Elmira, and Mark Twain's familial connection to that…
Dispatches From Quarry Farm: A House of Fiction
Feb13
Hunkering down in the house on the hill.
MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “Mark Twain’s Civil War” edited by Benjamin Griffin
Feb11
Kevin Mac Donnell reviews the most recent publication from the Bancroft Library
"One of The Best Men I Have Ever Known": Happy Birthday, Thomas K Beecher
Feb10
Happy B-Day, TKB!

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Panel on “Afterlives of Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee” at 2020 NEMLA

March 5-8, 2020 – Boston, Massachusetts

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CFP: Mark Twain Circle at 2021 MLA Conference

January 7-10, 2021 – Toronto, Canada

CFP Deadline: March 16, 2020

C19 Biennial Conference

April 2-5, 2020 – Coral Gables, Florida

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Mark Twain Circle at 2020 ALA Conference

May 21-24, 2020 – San Diego, California

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American Humor Studies at 2020 ALA Conference

May 21-24, 2020 – San Diego, California

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American Literature Society at 2020 ALA Conference

May 21-24, 2020 – San Diego, California

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American Humor Studies Association 2020 Conference

June 18-20, 2020 – Austin, Texas

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