Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

The author Mark Twain, who was born Samuel Clemens, is thought to have contributed to the popularity of the name. Twain ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Rivers of America, the Liberty Square Riverboat and Tom Sawyer Island at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla, is closing and ...

Walt Disney World is closing several iconic attractions beginning Monday to make room for a brand-new land. Frontierland's ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

“Mark twain” is what a steamboat crew member yelled out to tell the Captain the depth of the river. “Mark twain” is two fathoms, or 12 feet. I assumed you wanted to know.

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality The Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history.

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 ...