A pair of very different Southern humorists and a couple of funny scripts with full-cast productions are this month’s ...

F rom "meditations on grief" to "awkward coming-of-age" tales, the best memoirs and biographies "tell someone else's story ...

Author and humorist Mark Twain said a lot of witty things, but he’s also frequently misquoted.

Joyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller “Fox” at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.

“Mark Twain Tonight!,” originally created and performed by Hal Holbrook and now starring Richard Thomas, will be at TheaterWorks Hartford Aug. 12-24.

Fmr US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder on ongoing discussions about peace between Russia and Ukraine. Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman discusses the latest in the war in Gaza. Romanian political ...

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cement… ...

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

Book Review: Ron Chernow’s ‘Mark Twain’ gives readers an honest assessment of beloved author’s life Chernow’s willingness to give readers the unvarnished truth about Twain makes the ...

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s.

‘Hamilton’ author Ron Chernow’s new book takes on an icon of American letters, Mark Twain Chernow became fascinated by Twain as a prototype of the modern celebrity and found himself drawn ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as America’s first celebrity.