In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...

The Mark Twain House on Farmington Avenue in Hartford ... Susy had been born in 1872 in Elmira, New York, where the family had a summer home. Twain’s summer homes are the subject of a current ...

A bronze plaque stolen from author Mark Twain's grave site in Elmira, New York, has been returned to its proper place. The 15-pound 17.5-inch plaque depicting the author was pried off a 12-foot ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — The owner of the Historic Near Westside Historic District and director of Mark Twain tours welcomed ... The touring group was from Jordan, New York, which is right outside ...

I, myself, spent several nights last week thinking about Mark Twain — or as we called him in Elmira, Samuel Clemens ... Beecher’s house on the left. Don’t forget it is a steep hill where ...

I wrote about the demise of the Langdon home in the Nov. 3, 2017 edition of the Star-Gazette. I have some more to report. Before COVID-19, I had coffee with a group of friends every Friday morning ...

During a speaking stop in New York City, he met a charmer from Elmira and eventually married ... Hey, Matt: If I remember correctly, a daughter of Mark Twain was living at the Bahia Hotel in ...

(CBS/AP) -- Mark Twain ... a museum today. Twain wrote his most popular books over the next 17 years while living in Hartford and retreating to his summer home in Elmira, New York, including ...

Another of my favorites is Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), also known as Mark Twain. Several years ago I wrote about how people in Elmira, NY hold an attachment to ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. — Hal Holbrook has already performed on stage as Mark Twain a dozen years ... Elmira, in New York's Southern Tier, is where Twain wrote most of his best-known works, from his ...

Elmira, a bucolic town in New York’s Finger Lakes region, celebrates the life of its legendary part-time resident Mark Twain with special events beginning April 21 to coincide with the 100th ann ...