Articles Tagged with Hannibal Missouri

Mark Twain Books

Samuel Clemens - Mark Twain - wrote some of America's most-read novels. Born in 1835 in Missouri, he drew on the Mississippi River and small-town life for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, books that remain widely read and widely debated.

Mark Twain

Hannibal, Missouri, preserves the places that shaped Mark Twain's imagination. Visit the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum, local caves and historic downtown to see where Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn began.