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

It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

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 ...

Mark Twain explores a multidecade journey of a man who would become one of the most famous Americans, a saga containing highs, lows, and occasional bumps in the road.

Conan O'Brien will become the latest late-night comedy king to be crowned with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this year.. The Kennedy Center will present the honor − a distinction given ...

Little wonder that “Mark Twain,” Ron Chernow’s new book about America’s most famous writer, has climbed up this summer’s bestseller list. Chernow, whose 2004 biography of Alexander ...