Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- They came from as near as the next block and as far away as Iran - more than 700 "Twainies" anxious for a shot at finishing a unpublished story by Mark Twain and winning the first ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the Mississippi” (1883) ...

Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died 115 years ago, on April 21, 1910. He is widely regarded as one of America’s finest authors, especially in humor and travel writing. Twain was 74 when he ...

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In ...

If you're feeling down, reading a Mark Twain short story is a great way to escape and feel instantly more clever. But, if you're pressed for time, here are some of Twain's best quotes on politics, ...

Little wonder that “Mark Twain,” Ron Chernow’s new book about America’s most famous writer, has climbed up this summer’s bestseller list. Chernow, whose 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired a ...

For years, Mark Twain was somewhat ignored by locals as one of Carson City’s most famous and controversial residents who, after leaving here, became a worldwide sensation still recognized and revered ...