Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... for higher education or else studied in conjunction with other contemporary works about slavery and abolitionism”—a reasonable enough position.

You start feeling for the people who bleed. The Civil War haunts Mark Twain’s work even though he rarely addressed it outright. Twain grew up in an America of rapid growth and political instability.

Helen Plum Memorial Library in Lombard presents “Catch The Twain: The Musical” on Monday, April 21. “Mark and I have been ...

The Minerva Charitable Fund presents the Largely Literary Theater Company’s Twain by Two in a special fundraising event on Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m., at the Roxy Theatre. The two-act collection of ...

I think accepting an award named after Mark Twain is a responsibility ... First and foremost, Twain hated bullies. He populated his works with abusers such as Huck Finn’s alcoholic father ...

Pulitzer-winning biographer Ron Chernow will discuss his new biography of Mark Twain on June 10 at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford.

After 18 months of hard work, he earned his pilot's license ... While there, Clemens began to write again -- and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain ...

Mark Twain would be proud. Conan O’Brien accepted the 26 th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a star-studded gala at the Kennedy Center on March 23 that was sillier, spicier and ...