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Join Us for The American Voice in Literature Award Celebration

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Multiple Dates Through October

GRAVEYARD SHIFT TOURS

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October 10, 7PM (ET)

ROCTOGENARIANS: LATE IN LIFE DEBUTS, COMEBACKS, AND TRIUMPHS

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October 11, 7PM (ET)

THE WITCH'S DOOR: ODDITIES AND TALES FROM THE ESOTERIC TO THE EXTREME

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October 16, 7PM (ET)

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH: PET CEMETERIES, ANIMAL GRAVES, AND ETERNAL DEVOTION (Virtual)

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Take a Field Trip to the Mark Twain House & Museum

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Come See Our New Public Sculpture, Noble Purpose

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Visit our Online Book and Museum Store

MARK TWAIN STORE

Whether you’re a Twainiac, life-long bibliophile, or a jewelry connoisseur, browse and shop exclusive finds and a lovely variety of gifts for everyone of all ages at The Mark Twain House & Museum Store. Games, interesting reads, notebooks, unique apparel, we have it all! Proceeds from the store support the upkeep and restoration of Twain’s historic home and its programs.

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Mark Twain is one of our nation's defining cultural figures.

The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain’s restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain’s literary legacy and provide information about his life and times.

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Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award 2024

First presented in 2016, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award honors a work of fiction from the previous calendar that speaks with an “American Voice” about American experiences.

The award carries a $25,000 cash prize underwritten by bestselling author and trustee of the Mark Twain House and Museum, David Baldacci.

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Twain Quotes

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."

"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

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The Word Never Had So Much Meaning Before

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From this house, Mark Twain changed the way the world sees America and the way Americans see themselves. We continue the conversation he began.

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