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

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

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of Mark Twain, one of America’s most popular authors. In the five ...

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 ...

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… ...

The wild, comic, self-deflating, volcanic genius of Mark Twain As Ron Chernow’s epic new biography shows, Mark Twain still has much to tell America.

The Mark Twain closely associated with Hannibal rarely returned to it. By the time Twain began writing Huckleberry Finn, he had given up on the South and transformed from barefoot Missouri rascal ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark Twain, my first reaction was a sustained groan. This was not ...

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 ...