Samuel Langhorne Clemens “Mark Twain” (Mark Twain Studies Resource Page)
Gary Scharnhorst offers us a resource page on one of the most important figures in America literature, Mark Twain.
Category: Twain for Teachers
Olivia Susan “Susy” Clemens (Mark Twain Studies Resource Page)
Linda A. Morris (UC, Davis) provides a detailed account of the life of Sam and Livy’s oldest daughter, Susy.
Annis Ford Eastman (Mark Twain Studies Resource Page)
Mary Lemak details the life of the author of Twain’s eulogy and the mother of Crystal and Max Eastman
CMTS Announces the 2024 Quarry Farm Fireplace Winners
Check out the winners of the 2024 CMTS writing contest based on the fireplace tiles in the Quarry Farm parlor
Mark Twain’s Time In Hawai’i (Mark Twain Studies Resource Page)
James E. Caron discusses one of the most important events in the early career of Sam Clemens
Unlearning Racism: What Roles Can Works By Mark Twain Play in An Anti-Racist Pedagogy?
A wonderful essay by Shelley Fisher Fishkin originally published in the Japanese literary journal, Mark Twain Studies.
Olivia Langdon Clemens: A Life Summary
Barbara Snedecor provides an information page dedicated to Twain’s wife and profound influence on the author’s life and writings
The Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain’s Seminal Narrative
Jeffrey Melton contributes an information resource page on Twain’s seminal travel narrative and first full-length book
Mark Twain Shuffles Off to Buffalo
Tom Reigstad provides a summary of Mark Twain’s prolific period in Buffalo, New York
Teaching Mark Twain’s “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”
Jocelyn’s Slides The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Harpers, December 1899) Example Writing Prompts (Possibly Apocryphal) Hadleyburgs Fredonia, NY Oberlin, OH Adaptations Graphic Novel by Wander Antunes (Simon & Schuster, November 2023) The Small Town by Xu Xinhua (Jiangsua Huai Opera Company, 2016) Audiobook (Blackstone, 2004) TV Movie by Mark Harris (PBS, 1980) Radio Play by Sam Dann (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 1976) “The Man Who Demoralized Hadleyburg” by Zkislaw Skowronski […]