Mark Twain once described Germany in summertime as “the perfection of the beautiful,” and in his 1880 travel book “A Tramp Abroad,” the American author praises a section of the Neckar River between ...

Literary calendar for week of Oct. 19 St. Paul’s Book Bag Lady left behind a staggering library — but where would it go? Hispanic authors and bookstores push for representation in publishing Fall book ...

For most of the year, Quarry Farm — the former summer home of famed author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain — is reserved for Twain scholars. But in the spring and fall each year, the ...

THE OCTAGONAL study overlooks the green of Elmira College in upstate New York. In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “A Connecticut Yankee in King ...