This month, NewSouth Books will release a combined volume of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, edited by Twain scholar Alan Gribben, a professor at Auburn University. In ...
The idea of Ben Shattuck’s “The History of Sound” winning the 2025 Mark Twain American Voices in Literature Award from the Mark Twain House & Museum seems impossibly appropriate. The short story ...
The Mark Twain House turned 150 years old last year. The anniversary of the landmark building has inspired parties, lectures, special tours and other celebrations. The other building in the ...
Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping American identity. Mark Twain's birthday on November 30 invites readers to revisit a ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...
”Mark Twain,” By Ron Chernow. Publisher: Penguin, 1,174 pages. $45. It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, ...
In the vein of his earlier trademark biographies on George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alexander Hamilton, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow’s latest is a comprehensive look at the life and ...
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