"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

It Happened in Hartford” honors the happy home life the Twains experienced in Hartford with a museum exhibit and walking tour ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or about 12 feet) deep. Twain's experiences in the first three decades of his life became fodder for the stories he ...