sentences:  Powers was born in 1941 in Hannibal, Missouri — Mark Twain's hometown.Hannibal was influential in much of Powers' writing — as the subject of his book "White Town Drowsing", as the location of the two true-life murders that are the subject of "Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore", and as the home of Mark Twain.Powers has said that his fascination with Twain — the subject of two of his books — began in childhood