Though Mark Twain had a special love for a hard-to-come-by tropical fruit, there's a similar species you can find closer to ...

"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

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A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened ... He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or about 12 feet) deep. Twain's experiences in the first three decades of his life became fodder for the stories he ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

But above all, he said the character abides by Mark Twain’s “pillars” to be kind, safe, respectful and responsible. “A lot of teachers are very stressed and worn out, and they need some happiness and ...