In-Person Programs

Every friendship has its shadow...Told in alternating perspectives in Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, Bye, Baby confronts the myriad ways friendships change and evolve over time, the lingering echoes of childhood trauma, and the impact of women’s choices on their lifelong relationships. In-Person Event: $10 for non-members, free for MTH&M Members (please login to access your […]

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Twain's Gilded Age, […]

*Please note: this specialty tour visits the 1st floor of The Mark Twain House only!* Help us wish Susy a happy 152nd birthday! Spend the afternoon with Mark Twain's eldest daughter Susy, and learn how her family celebrated birthdays in "The Gilded Age!" A costumed actor will lead you on a tour of the 1st […]

With “Spirited Women”, The Mark Twain House & Museum sets out to explore trailblazing and adventurous women—as chronicled in two new novels—who claim their power by any means necessary. Queens of London is a tale of the dark glamour and sisterhood of Britain's first female crime syndicate, and how they managed the ever-shifting meaning of […]

In prose that draws from Puerto Rican folklore and mythology, a literary lineage of women writers of color, and narratives of identity, Jamie Figueroa presents a cultural coming-of-age story. Mother Island gets to the heart of the question: Who do we become when we are no longer trying to be someone else? In a journey […]