Missouri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Literature=== Missouri is the native state of [[Mark Twain]]. His novels ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' are set in his boyhood hometown of [[Hannibal, Missouri|Hannibal]]. Authors [[Kate Chopin]], [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Tennessee Williams]] were from St. Louis. Kansas City-born writer [[William Least Heat-Moon]] resides in [[Rocheport, Missouri|Rocheport]]. He is best known for ''[[Blue Highways]]'', a chronicle of his travels to small towns across America, which was on The New York Times Bestseller list for 42 weeks in 1982β1983. Novelist [[Daniel Woodrell]], known for depicting life in the Missouri Ozarks, was born in Springfield and lives in West Plains. [[File:Mark Twain's Boyhood Home; Hannibal, MO.jpg|thumb|Mark Twain's boyhood home in [[Hannibal, Missouri|Hannibal]]]] Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page