It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...

Robert Hirst is curator of the Mark Twain Papers at UC Berkeley, where a small army of editors has been laboring for six years to reconstruct the autobiography just as Twain wished it to be.

F rom "meditations on grief" to "awkward coming-of-age" tales, the best memoirs and biographies "tell someone else's story ...

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