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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Jeffrey Nichols returns to the Mark Twain House & Museum as its executive director, a position he previously held from 2008 to 2012. ... Asked if he has favorites among Twain’s many works, ...