Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884<\/p>\n The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<\/em>. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1876<\/p>\n Autobiography of Mark Twain<\/em>, vols. 1\u20133. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, 2013, and 2015.<\/p>\n Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays<\/em>, 1852\u20131890. Edited by Louis J. Budd. New York: Library of America, 1992.<\/p>\n A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court<\/em>. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889.<\/p>\n A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings<\/em>. Edited by Benjamin Griffin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.<\/p>\n The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today<\/em>. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1883.<\/p>\n The Innocents Abroad: A New Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1869<\/p>\n Life on the Mississippi<\/em>. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883.<\/p>\n The Prince and the Pauper<\/em>. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.<\/p>\n Roughing It<\/em>. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1880.<\/p>\n A Tramp Abroad<\/em>. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1872.<\/p>\n Andrews\u201a Kenneth R. Nook Farm: Mark Twain\u2019s Hartford Circle<\/em>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press\u201a 1950.<\/p>\n Bush, Harold K., Steve Courtney, and Messent, Peter, eds. The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell<\/em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.<\/p>\n Chernow, Ron. Mark Twain<\/em>. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025<\/p>\n Clark, Charles Hopkins. \u201cThe Charter Oak City.\u201d Scribner\u2019s Monthly<\/em>, November 1876.<\/p>\n Clemens\u201a Clara. My Father\u201a Mark Twain<\/em>. New York: Harper & Brothers\u201a 1931.<\/p>\n Courtney\u201a Steve. Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain\u2019s Closest Friend<\/em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press\u201a 2008.<\/p>\n Driscoll, Kerry. \u201cMark Twain\u2019s Music Box: Livy, Cosmopolitanism, and the Commodity Aesthetic.\u201d In Cosmopolitan Twain<\/em>, edited by Anne M. Ryan and Joseph B. McCullough, 140\u201386. Columbia, Missouri, and London: University of Missouri Press, 2008.<\/p>\n Howells\u201a William Dean. My Mark Twain<\/em>. Mineola\u201a New York: Dover\u201a 1997 (reprint of 1910 edition).<\/p>\n Jerome, Robert D., Barbara Snedecor, and Herbert A. Wisbey, eds. Mark Twain in Elmira<\/em>. Elmira, New York: Elmira College, 2013.<\/p>\n Kaplan\u201a Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography<\/em>. New York: Simon & Schuster\u201a 1966.<\/p>\n Lawton, Mary. A Lifetime with Mark Twain: The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant<\/em>. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925<\/p>\n Mac Donnell, Kevin, \u201cGeorge Griffin: Meeting Mark Twain\u2019s Butler Face to Face.\u201d Mark Twain Journal<\/em>, Spring 2024.<\/p>\n Meltzer\u201a Milton. Mark Twain Himself<\/em>. New York: Wings Books\u201a 1960.<\/p>\n Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography<\/em>, vols. 1\u20134. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.<\/p>\n Powers, Ron.\u00a0 Mark Twain: A Life<\/em>. New York: Free Press, 2005<\/p>\n Rasmussen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings<\/em>. New York: Facts on File, 1995.<\/p>\n Salsbury, Edith Colgate. Susy and Mark Twain: Family Dialogues<\/em>. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.<\/p>\n Schwinn, Walter K. Mark Twain\u2019s Hartford House<\/em>. Unpublished manuscript in the Mark Twain House & Museum Archive, 1986.<\/p>\n Snedecor, Barbara, ed. Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens<\/em>. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2023.<\/p>\n Twichell, Joseph H. \u201cMark Twain.\u201d Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>, May 1896.<\/p>\n The Mark Twain Papers & Project<\/p>\n The Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California\u201a Berkeley is where Twain\u2019s vast published and unpublished materials are archived. The project has published scholarly editions of many of his works and offers extraordinary access to materials\u201a including a searchable database of letters to and from Samuel L. Clemens.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.lib.berkeley.edu\/visit\/bancroft\/mark-twain-papers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Center for Mark Twain Studies https:\/\/marktwainstudies.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twainquotes.com http:\/\/www.twainquotes.com\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n The Mark Twain Forum http:\/\/bochynski.com\/twainweb\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark Twain in His Times https:\/\/twain.lib.virginia.edu\/index2.html<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Mark Twain House & MuseumBiographical and Critical Sources<\/h5>\n
Websites<\/h5>\n
\nThe Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College in upstate New York maintains a strong archive\u201a as well as a study center for scholars in the former home of Clemens\u2019 sister-in-law\u201a which was a summer retreat for the Clemens family and a workplace for the writer.<\/p>\n
\nBarbara Schmidt\u2019s twainquotes.com site is a wealth of information (not only quotes)\u201a but also hundreds of primary materials on Mark Twain\u201a such as interviews and articles from the press of the era.<\/p>\n
\nThe Mark Twain Forum is a place where scholars and non-scholars swap information\u201a quash myths and trade (sometimes strongly worded) opinions on the great American writer.<\/p>\n
\nThe late noted Mark Twain scholar Stephen Railton produced and directed this delightful\u201a cleverly designed site from the University of Virginia. There are dozens of texts and manuscripts\u201a scores of contemporary reviews and articles\u201a hundreds of images and interactive exhibits.<\/p>\n
\nThe restored Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, offers tours, educational programs, literary events, exhibitions ,and programs ranging from scholarly Mark Twain-oriented events to ghost tours and a Clue-style game played in the house itself. The site provides a wealth of information about the author, his family, the household staff and the contemporary scene in Hartford.<\/p>\n