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

Mark Twain’s writing space is being restored, learn more at Quarry Farm. Story by Caroline Stevens • 54m. E LMIRA, N.Y. — A beloved piece of literary history is getting an authentic ...

When Maverick Simon, 14, of Mound House received two perfect scores in the high school division of Carson City’s first Mark Twain Days Writing Contest, it brought his mother to tears. Maverick, who is ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Throughout it all, he kept writing. The most enduring of Twain’s books is “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published Stateside in 1885 when Twain was 49, the story of a runaway boy and an ...

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 ...