Gallows without Humor: How I Mined Mark Twain’s Western Violence

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study

Originally posted by: Jarrod Roark on March 3, 2020 In 2008 I began my PhD program shortly after I had broken my second metatarsal on a run with former students. At the time, antebellum writers of the gothic and sensational occupied my imagination in the darkness of...

New Documentary focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Thomas Reigstad on November 26, 2018 For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through...

From Innocent To India: Mark Twain’s Evolving Sympathies

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad

Originally posted by: Jeanne Campbell Reesman on August 29, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: As of earlier this month, it has been 150 years since the publication of Mark Twain’s first book,The Innocents Abroad. We are marking the occasion with a series of short essays from Twain...

Finding The Lost Diary of Mark Twain’s Granddaughter, Nina Gabrilowitsch

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study

Originally posted by: Alan Rankin on October 7, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE:  At the Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri in July 2019, Alan Rankin gave a talk entitled “Nina: The Lost Diary of Nina Gabrilowitsch.” What follows is a modified and expanded version of that...

Through a Southern Woman Writer’s Eyes: Seeing the Man in “A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns”

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study

Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on November 19, 2019 Editor’s Note: Miki Pfeffer, recent Quarry Farm Fellow, gave a lecture for CMTS on Grace King and Mark Twain as part of the Fall 2018 “Trouble Begins” Lecture Series. Her talk, “Getting to Know Mark Twain through...