The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

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It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

A CBS production crew was in Hannibal during the Memorial Day Weekend, filming footage and conducting interviews during the ...

Mark Twain — the subject of a new, 1,033-page biography by Ron Chernow — has been called “the Lincoln of our literature,” but his January 1869 lecture in Danville left ...

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

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

Mark Twain is for me the patron saint of colds, for whenever I get one, the first person I think of is him, enjoying every bit of his bedridden, book-reading, cigar-chomping and pampered laziness.

Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger will deliver remarks this weekend at the Missouri Humanities 2025 Keynote Address in St. Louis celebrating biographer Ron Chernow. The acclaimed author is in town to ...