Actor Alan Kitty was about 8 years old and living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he first read Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” “I finished the book and the following day, I ran away ...

I recently read Mark Twain’s “The Innocents Abroad,” one of the most irreverent travel books written. It follows Twain’s experience on a six-month steamship voyage through Europe and the Holy Land in ...

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 / ...

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 ...

I continue to read Mark Twain’s secondary books — the ones beyond the classics “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer.” My most recent was “Following the Equator,” describing his lecture tour around the ...

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 ...

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

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent ...

Maybe those involved in wars should check out the playbook from author Mark Twain. He commissioned an ornate Bible for his mother. I watched a special on him on TV. Very informative. Twain’s book, ...

Though millions of people have read Mark Twain’s classic American “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” novel, most folks have not read it 15 times in a row. Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning ...