Ever the Twain Shall Meet is a Berkeley Commonplace project in partnership with the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College in New York.
More than 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s wit, wisdom and world views continue to entertain, inspire –and upset– readers.
“I have to say that my novel, James, doesn’t come out of a dissatisfaction with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I imagine myself in a conversation with Twain.”
–Percival Everett
Just as Percival Everett’s 2024 novel, James, was created in the spirit of conversation, Ever the Twain Shall Meet engages the global legacy of Samuel Clemens by presenting Mark Twain-inspired imagery in this international online collection.
RESOURCES
Suggested Articles
Mark Twain and Critical Race Theory
America’s Home Town: Fiction, Mark Twain, and the Re-Creation of Hannibal, Missouri
A Legacy of Guilt
The Round-the-World Trip That Made Mark Twain an Anti-Imperialist
Percival Everett and the Reinvention of Mark Twain’s Jim
Noted locations and repositories include:
UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library: Mark Twain Papers and Project
Elmira, N.Y.’s Woodlawn Cemetery, Twain’s final resting place
Hartford, CT’s Mark Twain House and Museum
Hannibal, MO’s Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum
Heidelberg, Germany The Mark Twain Center
London, UK Blue Plaque Mark Twain at 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
Virginia City and Carson City, Nevada
Elmira College’s CMTS and Quarry Farm locale
The misson of the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is dedicated to fostering and supporting scholarship and pedagogy related to all aspects of Mark Twain. The primary purpose of CMTS is to serve an international community of scholars, writers, educators, and artists working in the field of Mark Twain Studies. CMTS seeks to enrich the broader community by promoting and preserving the legacy of Twain and his deep connection to Elmira.