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." ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

Mark Twain senior lineman Micah Daniels knows he has a lot on his shoulders coming into the 2025 season as the unquestioned ...

A new biography of American novelist Mark Twain goes in depth on his life and career. In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career ...

Twain blew like a derecho into Paris on a Saturday as evening fell. Reality—in the sense of “the truth”; in the sense of “what really happened”—was more ephemeral in the 19th century. Assuming that ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and bother that job entailed. It’s that dark side, usually cloaked by legend, that dominates Ron Chernow ...

Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers, is known for his wit, wisdom, and unforgettable characters like Huckleberry ...

In 1978, William Rueckert coined the term “ecocriticism,” defining it as “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.” He proposed three postulates about literature, ...

Twain was at the top of his popularity in 1883, when he and Charles Webster became partners. Twain had always had troubles with publishers—”pirates, scoundrels . . . humiliating swindles.” ...

Mark Twain's New Book "It is delicious, whether you open it at the sojourn in Heidelberg, or the voyage down the Neckar on a raft, or the mountaineering in Switzerland, or the excursion beyond ...