Mark Twain's New York
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A walking tour of Mark Twain
landmarks in Manhattan
More than a hundred years after his death, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is still America’s best-known and best-loved author. This year, in fact, the House of Representatives has voted to authorize a new gold coin to be minted in Twain's honor.*
Join our "Mark Twain's New York" walking tour to discover how New York City and the people he met here helped to shape Mark Twain as a man and a writer — and how he became the most celebrated and beloved New Yorker of his time.
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* Whether it truly is an "honor" to be eulogized by a Congress that so thoroughly justifies the kind of language Twain used to describe the Congress of his day ("brainless idiot," "bladder of wind," "quacking numbskull" etc.) is something you'll have to decide for yourself.
The "most conspicuous person on the planet": Mark Twain on Fifth Avenue, seen here with his daughter Clara Clemens, and very obviously enjoying the attention of their fellow pedestrians.
Our Tour
“Mark Twain’s New York” is a unique 90-minute walking tour, led by writer and Mark Twain expert Peter Salwen. It starts in Lower Manhattan, where Twain published his first book and met his future wife in 1867, and ends with a look at the Greenwich Village homes he occupied in the early 1900s. In between you'll visit over a dozen other places where Mark Twain lived, visited, did business and generally made himself, in his own words, “the most conspicuous person on the planet.”
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A walking tour of Mark Twain
landmarks in Manhattan
