After the discussion, have students compose a culminating writing, using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author had ...

Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving Dodge, at the helm of the Indian Department. "There’s a man who ...

Mark Twain is famous for writing countless books that changed the face of American literature — whether fiction or nonfiction. (See also: the number of acclaimed writers who have revisited his ...

James is not the Jim from Mark Twain’s late 19th century masterpiece ... told NPR that he isn’t trying to erase Twain. “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of Twain ...

The portrait his research paints here is one of a vibrant personality writing for and managing ... There are dozens of books written about Mark Twain and his exceedingly important contributions ...

Van Wyck Brooks once suggested that he regarded his comic writing "as something external to himself, as something other than artistic self-expression." No doubt Mark Twain resented being taken as ...

A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

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Anthony; Jazz; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson, And The War. Ward also wrote or co-wrote companion volumes for seven of these series.