Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his family reduced to living in cramped quarters above ...

Early Life: Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Mo., the Mississippi River town that served as the setting for many of his famous books. After his father died when he was 11, Clemens became a printer's ...

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.

Slowly I Turned," Mark Twain used Niagara Falls to trigger a 'violent' outpouring of writing projects," Reigstad writes in his book. Twain's time in Western New York was brief, covering a period ...

But in a deeper sense, the river flows through every corner of the American imagination, thanks to Mark Twain, born as Samuel Clemens in 1835. Twain’s hometown, Hannibal, Missouri, is a living ...

This book on Mark Twain in Hawaii (which puts his Sandwich Islands letters in a single volume for the first time) is an uncritical labor of love by 84-year-old Walter Francis Frear, who was chief ...

The 1,000-page biography, simply titled “Mark Twain,” will be published in May. On June 10 at 7 p.m., Chernow will be in Hartford to discuss the book.

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. Twain lived in Connecticut for many years.

Where did Mark Twain write this book? How long did it take him to write it? According to Andrew Levy, why was this book banned? Video Clip 6: What Do Huck Finn and Jim Represent? (3:03) ...

The second Gold Coast Book Fair will kick off on May 16 with a man of history. Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, who has written biographies about some of the greatest figures in American history ...