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

Life, In Arbitrage (A Twainiac Quarantine Diary)
Mar30
Our resident scholar has spent his first week in self-quarantine thinking about Mark Twain, coronavirus, and the Civil War.
Dispatches From Quarry Farm: Distance Lends Enchantment To The View
Mar25
Caretaker Steve Webb and his son are the only year-round residents of Quarry Farm. Steve provides us with occasional, not…
CFP: Twain and The Tall Tale (Special Issue of “Quarterly”)
Mar06
Scholarly Journal looking for brief essays on the tall tale. Deadline is October 1, 2020
Gallows without Humor: How I Mined Mark Twain’s Western Violence
Mar03
Jarrod Roark discusses how he became interested in the peculiarities of Twain's Western writings.
MARK TWAIN FORUM BOOK REVIEWS: “Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father” by Yasuhiro Takeuchi
Mar02
Kevin Mac Donnell reviews a book focusing on the death of Pap Finn for the Mark Twain Forum

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CMTS 2019 Lectures
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2020 Quarry FArm Symposium
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Special Issue of Quarterly

Published by the Book Club of California

Looking for aspects of the Tall Tale, as developed by Twain and others

CFP Deadline: October 1, 2020

C19 Biennial Conference

October 21-25, 2020 – Coral Gables, Florida

Deadline for CFP has passed

Mark Twain Circle at 2021 MLA Conference

January 7-10, 2021 – Toronto, Canada

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