Twain Harte in Northern California offers a charming winter getaway with snow-covered landscapes and festive small-town charm ...

The award-winning author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah gave an online reading of his work as part of the Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program on Thursday, Oct. 23.

Richard Thomas, best known as John Boy Walton in The Waltons and for his portrayal of Atticus Finch on the Tulsa stage in 2024, will bring a one-man show about Mark Twain to the Tulsa Performing Arts ...

When he was a boy walking the streets in Hannibal, Missouri, pages from a biography of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) were swept up to Samuel Clemens’ feet. Upon reading the strewn pages, Clemens inquired of ...

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.

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Mark Twain’s many lives. A new biography depicts the different sides of the American author. Some people live several lives. Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his ...

Mark Twain is returning to Hartford, the city he called his favorite. This time the celebrated author, social critic and curmudgeon is embodied by Richard Thomas for a special series of performances ...

As San Francisco’s summer lives up to its blustery reputation with a colder-than-usual run of chilly, foggy weather, an oft-repeated quote is again making the rounds: “The coldest winter I ever spent ...

Re: “Mark Twain’s words about patriotism can ease our injured pride” (July 6, Northwest): Columnist Danny Westneat reflected well on Mark Twain’s wisdom that “ … true patriotism … is loyalty to the ...

Robert Costa is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and chief Washington analyst for CBS News. The Mississippi Valley is "as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing ...