"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 ...

A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

And how could that bio, produced by a university press at 700+ pages—with ... Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as surely and craftily as he created Huck Finn. The man ...