We have funding now to do our Mark Twain Digital Day by Day project that will an exciting attempt to chronicle the day by day life events, people, places and works of the American author, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The project is funded by the Susan Jaffe Tane Digital Mark Twain Day by Day Fund (the kind support of Susan Jaffe Tane).

The Mark Twain Digital Day by Day project is an attempt to do a comprehensive annotated chronology of the life of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) that records every documented date in Twain’s life from every known source, published and unpublished, creating a detailed day-by-day account of his activities, writings, and experiences spanning his entire lifetime from 1835 to 1910, as well as map his travels and create network visualizations of his life, works and relationships.

The Project is headed by Stephen Rachman, Gillian MacDonald, and Dean Rehberger of Michigan State University, and Joeseph Lemak, Director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies.

“Mark Twain, America’s best humorist,” cartoon by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, from the December 16, 1885, issue of Puck. Courtesy of Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.