"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

There are many misquoted versions of the above that stem from a Mark Twain biography by Albert Bigelow Paine published in 1912 (two years after Twain’s actual death). According to Paine’s ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

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

And how could that bio, produced by a university press at 700+ pages—with ... Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as surely and craftily as he created Huck Finn. The man ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...