Although we think of Mark Twain as the quintessential example of the homespun American, he was actually very much a cosmopolitan. He lived in San Francisco and New York, and his mansion in Hartford was a center for writers, artists, and public figures. He was equally home abroad, living in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, and welcome in palaces and salons in fashionable Europe. He was truly a man of the world, and by his death, he was a world figure, an important commentator on the events of his time.