The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...

An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.

Caitlin Zack believes her mother should be alive. On June 4, Samantha Howells was shot and killed in Crafton Heights as she ...

And while William Dean Howells called Mark Twain "the most de-Southernized Southerner I ever met," the president is the least de-businessized businessman America ever met. He is a stark contrast to ...

“I never saw a more used up, hungrier man, than Clemens,” William Dean Howells, the legendary 19th-century editor of the Atlantic, once wrote of Twain.

Fmr US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder on ongoing discussions about peace between Russia and Ukraine. Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman discusses the latest in the war in Gaza. Romanian political ...

William Dean Howells, Twain’s editor at the Atlantic, called him “the most desouthernised southerner I ever met. No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery.” ...

By comparison, Justin Kaplan’s penetrating 1966 biography, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, came in at a brisk 424 pages.

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 ...

Book Review Mark Twain By Ron Chernow Penguin Press: 1,200 pages, $45 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.