Step inside the Hartford home where Mark Twain wrote his classics and see how the Gilded Age author lived, worked and raised ...

Twain's time in Buffalo is considered a turning point in his professional life ...

Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping American identity. Mark Twain's birthday on November 30 invites readers to revisit a ...

"Something at once awful and sublime" (1835-39) -- "The white town, drowsing ..." (1839) -- Of words and the Word (1840-42) -- The Hannibal decade (1843-53 ...

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 ...

Every year, we celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), America's defining humorist. His legacy—spanning classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of ...

The journalistic censorship incident experienced by Mark Twain in 1864 represents a seminal moment in his formative years as a writer. Twain first revisited this censorship episode in an 1870 Galaxy ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more widely known by his pen name, Mark Twain. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images) William Faulkner’s description of Twain as “the father of American literature … the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

Mark Twain is returning to Hartford, the city he called his favorite. This time the celebrated author, social critic and curmudgeon is embodied by Richard Thomas for a special series of performances ...