Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

You know Mark Twain’s story. You’ve got no excuse not to; there have been so many biographies. Starting in the American South ...

In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry ... s Court”, along with umpteen other stories, articles and speeches. Twain spent his most productive summers on his wife’s family ...

Mark Twain around the time he wooed and wed Olivia ... “as other children play with a toy,” writes Chernow. During a speech in Utica, NY, in 1870, he stood silently on stage for several ...

Trump praised McKinley in his inaugural speech to a second term, claiming that McKinley “made our nation very rich through ...

Mark Twain: "As an example to others ... He created a uniquely American voice that captured the vernacular speech of the young nation. As famous an orator as a writer, Twain elevated storytelling ...

Let us consider, then, some of the movies released in the summer of 2000.

University of California staff filed suit against Trump and federal agencies in what they hope will be a first-of-its-kind ...

Triumph opened the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Award presentation ... BIANCULLI: It was as much a lecture as an acceptance speech, and it also may have provided a clue to a hidden ...

Overall, Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is less a literary biography ... British English and captured the sound of living American speech. The novel’s prose, moreover, can be heartbreakingly ...