One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

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 ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

A new biography of American novelist Mark Twain goes in depth on his life and career. In Mark Twain, a doorstopper of a biography, Ron Chernow examines Twain’s family history, boyhood and career and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Mark Twain Journal is devoted to the lives and works of Mark Twain and his circle of family, friends, and acquaintances, ...

COMMENTARY: Though known as America’s great humorist, Twain called his novel on Joan of Arc the ‘best of all my books.’ ...

"Now published in its entirety for the first time a century later." A biography of Twain written by his daughter Susy when she was thirteen and he was fifty. Includes correspondence between the two.

“Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, 1200 pages, $45. Mark Twain was first encountered by the reviewer as the avuncular, white-haired visage joining the purple-clad Robert Louis Stevenson and ...

Some musings by Mark Twain on religion from various sources: * “Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.” 1878 Twain ...

It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, “The yacht race! I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, ...

Anne Bernays, the widow of the biographer Justin Kaplan, says Mr. Holbrook’s performance was “not impersonation; it was possession.” Also: Marjorie Taylor Greene; mourning on Zoom; owl sighting. To ...