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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 ...

To commemorate the 100-year anni­versary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has ...

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1924. 8vo. 2 vols. $10.00. THOSE who read the considerable portions of Mark Twain’s Autobiography published in the North American Review a number of years ago will look ...

Last year, Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Papers & Project, gave us a new collection of writings titled "Who Is Mark Twain?" The slim volume showed there was still a good amount of ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

The cover of Mark Twain's Autobiography has been unveiled by Fantagraphics Books. Michael Kupperman's book tells the story of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer author's life between 1910 and 2010. What to ...

In 1904, Mark Twain wrote that he had "hit upon the right way to do an Autobiography." What he had discovered, says historian Robert Hirst, was the art of dictation. Instead of writing down his ...

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 ...

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules ...