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 ...

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

Mark Twain’s long relationship with The Atlantic began in December 1869, when William Dean Howells, then an assistant editor at the magazine, wrote a highly favorable review of Twain's first ...

An unpublished Mark Twain tale, once part of a would-be writing contest, finally sees print after 125 years. An unpublished Mark Twain tale, ...

It begins with one of the great literary friendships between Williams Dean Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was editor of the Atlantic Monthly in the 1870s, was America's foremost literacy arbiter.

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. 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 ...