Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his publisher. In 1885, ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

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

THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN (Chestnut Station). In this, the first feature film to be produced in Claymation, a process that features animated clay figures, ...

Mark Twain and love at first sight Born in 1835 and raised on the Mississippi River in Hannibal, the young Samuel Clemens worked as a typesetter, a riverboat pilot, a miner and a writer.

So rich and full was the life of Mark Twain, born Sam Clemens, that it requires two hours-plus to tell the full tale [adapted from Twain's works, and Harold M. Sherman's play Mark Twain, by Alan ...

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

A British university has issued a "trigger warning" on Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" because of its “problematic" slave-era violence and language.

(CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."But the story of how this book is finally coming to be ...