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Sparks flew as Sea Tea Improv presented “R Rated Twain,” a selection of racy and salacious writings by Mark Twain at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford on Thursday night. The local improv ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

A new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn will replace the N-word with the word “slave.” As a literary purist I am outraged! (Sort of.) This has been a long-simmering controversy … for decades.

Yet another day goes by that I see Percival Everett’s “James” sitting among a few other books in our bedroom, unopened and unread by me. And sure, I’ve had many people ask, “Have you read “Jim”?” Some ...

Mark Twain was famous for his stinging wit, but he also had a softer side. The author was the father of two daughters, Clara and Susy Clemens, and every night, he told them a bedtime story. Twain ...

Actor Alan Kitty was about 8 years old and living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he first read Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” “I finished the book and the following day, I ran away ...

The historic Elmira area home where legendary author Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — penned some of his most famous works will be getting an important addition thanks to a ...

A site that Mark Twain once called "a heavenly place for a boy" in northeast Missouri will be the focus of a privately run archaeological dig this summer. Karen A. Hunt, 67, owns property outside of ...

A new history by Roland Allen uncovers the wealth of ideas and invention hidden in the notebooks of literary luminaries. By Wilson Wong Mary Jane never “sat right” with the award-winning scientist and ...