Past Event

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

Ben Tarnoff, Author, The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

Tarnoff's latest book focuses on Mark Twain's early years as a struggling writer in Civil War-era San Francisco and on the countercultural community he discovered there. It was a haven for weirdos, gamblers, crooks and draft dodgers, but later became a literary laboratory for new kinds of writing, eventually influencing several of the directions American literature went during the decades that followed.

April 2, 2014
Format

MLF: Humanities

Location: SF Club Office

Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing

Cost: $20 non-members, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)

Program Organizer: George Hammond