When Maverick Simon, 14, of Mound House received two perfect scores in the high school division of Carson City’s first Mark Twain Days Writing Contest, it brought his mother to tears. Maverick, who is ...

Twain's writing is quintessentially American, right down to the problematic parts. But there was one secret thing he did that I think screenwriters can learn a lot from. Let's dive in.

Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 1. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, et al. University of California Press: 738 pp., $34.95. Having created a quintessentially American brand of humor and style ...

18 Rants by Mark Twain About Bad Writing. By Maria Popova. January 10, 2012. ... exquisite rant by Mark Twain, ... Employ a simple and straightforward style. Twain concludes: ...

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When Mark Twain opened his mouth, strange things came tumbling out. Things like hoaxes, jokes, yarns, obscenities, and non sequiturs. He had a drawl—his “slow talk,” his mother called it ...

‘Mark Twain meets Tony Awards’: ... Each year, nominees are rated by 50 judges based on several categories including writing style, format, grammar and, most importantly, ...

Retropolis Mark Twain’s typewriter — 'full of defects, devilish ones’ — nearly drove him bonkers. But the famed author made history by writing ‘Life on the Mississippi’ on the ...