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As a small-town American boy in Hannibal in the 1850's, Sam Clemens lived a fairly typical childhood in this house, yet his life there helped shape him into Mark Twain, one of the world's greatest writers. In the 1870s, as a writer, he returned to the house in memory and used his imagination to transform the people, places, and events of his childhood into stories that captured the soul of America. After he became world famous, he visited Hannibal and walked back into the house, where memories of his boyhood filled him with both pleasure and regret.
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Hannibal, Missouri · United States
