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(1835-1910) Author. Samuel Clemens married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York, and spent about 20 summers at a residence there. Twain edited the local paper, The Morning Express. Twain came to New York City in 1900 and lived at 14 West 10th Street in the Washington Square area of Manhattan before moving to 21 5th Avenue where he lived until 1908. Twain’s house, at 21 Fifth Avenue, was designed by James Renwick, Jr., who designed Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. There is a plaque on the Brevoort apartment building at 5th Avenue and 9th Street. He also stayed at the Hotel Chelsea in 1888 and lived, from 1901 to 1903, in Holbrook House (now Wave Hill), at 675 West 252nd Street in Riverdale, New York. In 2011 the United States Postal Service issued its twenty-seventh stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Mark Twain.

Full Name

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Mark Twain appeared frequently at various events at Carnegie Hall.

1835

BIRTH

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835.

1867

LITWORK

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County


Short story.

1869

OTHER

Mr. Clemens lived at 472 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York, from 1869 to 1871, and was the editor of the Buffalo Express newspaper in the 1870s.

1869

LITWORK

The Innocents Abroad


Nonfiction.

1870

OTHER

Clemens married Olivia Langdon of Elmira, New York, in 1870, and spent about 20 summers at a residence there, working on such classics as "Tom Sawyer" (1876), "Huckleberry Finn" (1884), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882), and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889). Elmira College has preserved Twain's octagonal study, including his round desk, various chairs, typewriter, etc.

1876

LITWORK

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Novel.

1882

LITWORK

The Prince and the Pauper


Novel.

1883

LITWORK

Life On The Mississippi

1884

LITWORK

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Novel.

1889

LITWORK

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


Novel.

1890

OTHER

Lived, in the summer of 1890, in Lawrence Hutton's cottage in Tannersville, New York. There is a plaque on a boulder near the site.

1900

RESIDENCE

Mark Twain lived at 14 West 10th Street in Manhattan, New York, from 1900 to 1901.

1901

OTHER

In 1901-1903, Twain lived in Holbrook House (now Wave Hill), at 675 West 252nd St. in Riverdale, New York, where he wrote "A Double-Barreled Detective Story."

1902

OTHER

Clemens owned land at Benedict and Highland, Hillcrest, in Tarrytown, New York from 1902 to 1905; there is a historical marker.

1903

LITWORK

Niagara


Twain wrote of the falls.

1910

DEATH

Mark Twain died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910.

1910

INTERMENT

Clemens is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York.

1938

LITWORK

Letters From The Sandwich Islands

1939

LITWORK

Letters from Honolulu

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