Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...

Influenced by the Mississippi River ... Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American. Their approach was direct ...

“I have no liking for novels or stories,” Mark Twain once wrote—and often ... The scholar has also zeroed in on hundreds of works that influenced Twain’s writing, including these titles ...

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

Naked people have little or no influence on society. The white suit ... He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented a peculiar ...