Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

Mark Twain, says DeVoto, “was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells.” This fact is subtly related to his limitations ...

Mark Twain. By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press; 1,200 pages; $45. ... William Dean Howells, Twain’s editor at the Atlantic, called him “the most desouthernised southerner I ever met.

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...