Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping ...

How fortunate the Republican Party once was to have within its ranks a critic so unwilling to pretend that wrong was right ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place. Every year on November 30, readers pause to honor a birthday that changed ...

The Humorous Heart of America Every year, we celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), America’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses ...

Today, we celebrate the 190th birthday of the “father of American literature,” Mark Twain, a storyteller whose wit, wisdom, and honesty spoke to the heart Every child deserves a safe and nurturing ...

Twain wanted Early Rose potatoes, a Vermont-bred heirloom, roasted in the ashes of a fire. Mussels from the waters around San Francisco. And hot broiled Virginia bacon. But in 1879, on a book tour ...

Now, Kitty brings that voice home to Sarasota with the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the historic Crocker Church in ...

Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and lifted post-Civil War spirits ...

Mark Twain is often referred to as America’s favorite humorist. But a new book by American Studies professor Forrest Robinson sheds new light on the renowned author’s tormented moral life. The ...

On Sunday night, Will Ferrell took to the red carpet inside Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center dressed in a lush blue velvet jacket, complete with velvet bow tie and pocket square. He had arrived to ...

"He fights" -- Grant and Twain: a chronology -- 1. "A man with fire" -- 2. "A wounded lion" -- 3. "The small room at the head of the stairs" -- 4. "Turn him loose ...