“That alone—and it is a process that can only happen over a period of years ... timetable is that Mark Twain won’t stop writing. His known output at the time of his death at age 74 was ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) ...

The Gilded Age that Donald Trump so badly wants to recreate might be a faint memory from American history class, so let’s ...

Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...