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

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An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.

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

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 ...