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 ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

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

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of Mark Twain, one of America’s most popular authors. In the five ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

Another is the works of Mark Twain (scholarly editions of the writer’s published works, including his commissioned letters to various newspapers and journals).

In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain ...