Ben Tarnoff

Ben Tarnoff appears in the following:

Mark Twain in San Francisco and the Reinvention of American Literature

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Mark Twain arrived in San Francisco in 1863, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure. In California he found that the economy booming, newspapers and magazines thriving, and promise of the transcontinental railroad soon to become a reality. Ben Tarnoff tells how Twain connected with the city’s Bohemian writers. But ...

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