Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri ... which coursed by his boyhood home of Hannibal, Mo, Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

The quote about Cincinnati being " 20 years behind the times " is commonly attributed to Mark Twain. No one knows for sure ...

The published volumes cover the years from 1853, when Sam Clemens was 17 and exploring New York City and Philadelphia, to 1875, by which time Mark Twain, age 40, was at work on The Adventures of ...

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer ...

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and ...

“I have no liking for novels or stories,” Mark Twain once wrote ... Echoes of Our Mutual Friend can be found in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Gribben says Twain “read and annotated ...

Musical based on the novel by Mark Twain written by Grammy Award winner ... chronicles the life and adventures of Tom Sawyer set in Hannibal, Missouri during the 1840's.

A casting crisis threatened a theater’s production of a Mark Twain classic after a diversity workaround proved problematic. Despite the inherent pretend nature of theater and similar […] ...