Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is a mountain of a book. As Mark Twain is one of my all-time favorites — and probably the most important and influential writer who put words into my brain — I couldn’t wait ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is hosting a reading of a play about the friendship between Twain and President Ulysses S. Grant, with a stellar cast led by Tony Shalhoub as Twain (aka Samuel Clemens), ...

How fortunate the Republican Party once was to have within its ranks a critic so unwilling to pretend that wrong was right ...

The Mississippi Valley is "as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it … nothing to hang a fret or worry upon." It's a beautiful sentiment, and yet it contrasts with ...

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent ...

Currently only sponsorship tickets remain for Saturday, which include a VIP reception with the actors and creatives. A second reading has been announced for Sunday, December 19 at 2pm. Tickets, ...

It has been more than 70 years Since my class at the Davidson Junior High school produced a play based on Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” ...

Step into the world of Mark Twain, the man behind America’s most iconic literary characters and legendary wit. From his mischievous Tom Sawyer and adventurous Huck Finn to his sharp observations on ...