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The Bohemians

Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

Ben Tarnoff

2014

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Painting of the Bay of San Francisco, by Eduard Hildebrandt.

Mark Twain, the Californian

In 1864 San Francisco, Twain found hardship, Bohemia, and his voice—transforming from local reporter to rising literary force.

by Ben Tarnoff via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 4, 2025

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