One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Mark Twain Journal is devoted to the lives and works of Mark Twain and his circle of family, friends, and acquaintances, ...

In 1867, after successfully marketing accounts of his Mideast travels to several newspapers, Mark Twain wrote to his mother, "Am pretty well known now. Intend to be better known." But he could hardly ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Michael Shelden shrewdly begins his portrait of the last few years in the life of Mark Twain with the "blustery Friday afternoon" ...

Mark Twain is an inexhaustible subject for biography. Every generation reads him and finds a different author: folk humorist, artist, controversialist, and (in certain quarters) racist. He is an ...

The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. Designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, the house was ...