Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed ... are harder to find on the web than those covering Twain's work, but with a little lead-time, students could ...

In this centenary year of Mark Twain’s death, it may seem that literary detectives have long since ransacked nearly every aspect of his life and works. Yet Laura Wright remains among the final ...

Ninety-three years after his death in 1910, Samuel Langhorne Clemens has been making some ambitious career moves. It’s almost as though the old sage of the Mississippi, better known as Mark ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...