"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

Percival Everett reveals a lot about his reworking of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry ... in 1856, published Autobiography of a Female Slave. She had inherited and emancipated slaves ...

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 ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms ... He died in Redding, Connecticut, in 1910, with his autobiography unfinished.

Blankenship "was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed," Clemens wrote in 1906 under his better-known pen name in the "The ...

But Powers, who wrote about Twain's Missouri childhood in Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain , early on promises "in Powers, the first TV critic to be awarded a Pulitzer ...

Quick, what white-suited, stogie-smoking, joke-telling wise guy delayed the publication of his autobiography for 100 years ... Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms ... He died in Redding, Connecticut, in 1910, with his autobiography unfinished.