After the discussion, have students compose a culminating writing, using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author had ...

Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving Dodge, at the helm of the Indian Department. "There’s a man who ...

Though Mark Twain had a special love for a hard-to-come-by tropical fruit, there's a similar species you can find closer to home.

Van Wyck Brooks once suggested that he regarded his comic writing "as something external to himself, as something other than artistic self-expression." No doubt Mark Twain resented being taken as ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

Mark Twain is famous for writing countless books that changed the face of American literature — whether fiction or nonfiction. (See also: the number of acclaimed writers who have revisited his ...

James is not the Jim from Mark Twain’s late 19th century masterpiece ... told NPR that he isn’t trying to erase Twain. “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of Twain ...

This brand new book by local publisher Prometheus Books is a must read by anyone interested in Mark Twain and his life in literature, or Buffalo during the booming post-Civil War era. Tom Reigstad ...

He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented ... All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Twain tried ...

Celebrated American author Mark Twain was very dismissive of people who think it is possible for someone to learn how to write a novel. "A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a ...