Quarry Farm overlooks the dairy country of the Chemung River Valley in the Finger Lakes District of western New York. The Writing Study - Full Of Cats And Cigars NPR made a pilgrimage to the site of Twain's brilliant writing life - and to the place that the author is buried - to learn the stories behind one of the satirist's favorite places. And last month, 100 years after Twain's death, the world saw the publication of his official autobiography, a tome that has become so popular in recent weeks that bookstores cannot keep it in stock.įans of Twain may be surprised to learn that the author wrote Huck Finn - along with his other classic works about life on the Mississippi - in upstate New York, in a small writing cottage at his sister-in-law's summer home in Elmira. This year also marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. Tuesday is the 175th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Clemens, the writer we know as Mark Twain. A sign directs visitors to the Mark Twain family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, N.Y.
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