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

from Beamis12

The Bohemians includes a young Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Stoddard and Ina Coolbirth, though this book really only gives one an in depth view of Harte and Twain. What I liked most about this book was the wonderful history presented within. San Francisco, mid eighteen hundreds, many arrive fleeing th...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley Mark Twain has long been regarded as one of the voices of not only early America, but of modern America as well. Far ahead of his time Twain had an enormous impact upon American thought, life, and art after the Civil War and in the making of modern America. But he wasn't...

from muddyboy

A well written and researched book for a limited audience. The book focuses on a group of young authors who become friends in San Francisco during the mid 1800's. Some of them become American literary icons - Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and others in the group do not. The book focuses on the rival...

from mattries37315

In The Bohemians, Ben Tarnoff describes how Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Ina Coolbrith interacted with and were influenced both personally and professionally by one another in San Francisco during and immediately after the Civil War before transforming American literature....

from JBreedlove

One of the best non-fiction books I've read in a while. A lot of context and insight on a period and place in American history. Now I finally understand why Twain was the beginning of modern American literature.