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

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

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

A third is the Mark Twain Library (paperback editions of the works without the scholarly notes, for classroom use and general readership). Yet a fourth, begun in 2001, is an online archive of ...

How Well Do You Know the Life and Works of Mark Twain? By J. D. Biersdorfer May 5, 2025. Share full article. Ben Hickey. Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture.

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

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Read: Mark Twain’s work from The Atlantic’s archive. The four years of his early 20s that he spent as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi were nevertheless an idyll.

If you’re not familiar with the works of Mark Twain, a visit to Hannibal will soon catch you up, as many of the local businesses and tourist attractions (and even the lamp post banners ...