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

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

Of the dozen books I’ve read so far this year, none has affected me nearly so deeply as a brand-new treasure written by Ron Chernow. It’s called simply “Mark Twain.” ...

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.

Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images After achieving wealth from his writing, Mark Twain poured his money into several terrible investments. In one case, Twain invested $200,000 in an ...