In the late 19th century, Mark Twain was arguably the most famous author in the world, with classics like “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) cement… ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of America’s finest writers, essayists, and humorists.His literary masterpieces, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The ...

Mark Twain photographed by AF Bradley at New York City, 1907. Via Wikimedia Commons Twain, who honed his craft and developed what he called “ dead sure tricks of the platform,” reflected that he “used ...

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. ... “At the time Twain’s behavior was regarded as the charming eccentricity of a beloved humorist with a soft spot for children.

Mark Twain is funny the way the Book of Job is funny. ... “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,” Francis Bacon wrote, under his own name, with Twainian pith.

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. Skip ... “At the time Twain’s behavior was regarded as the charming eccentricity of a beloved humorist with a soft spot for children.