Kennett sits quietly in Missouri’s Bootheel, offering a pace of life that feels like stepping back in time. The main street features classic storefronts where shoppers still greet each other by name.

Summer is the perfect time for reading and chatting about books. For this summer's book club selection, "James," Louisiana ...

As Missouri’s third-largest city, Springfield offers big-city amenities with small-town prices. This makes it perfect for retirees living on a monthly budget of $1,200 or less. Housing costs in ...

A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

Huck and Jim's Island Time in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Importance ... which causes the river to overflow its banks, making it unlikely that people will venture out on the mighty ...

the mighty Mississippi is storied in American culture, history and identity. It’s where Delta blues music developed, it’s the setting of Mark Twain’s classic tale of Huck Finn’s river ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... Mississippi, an experience that would inform Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” and other books. The river ...

The four years of his early 20s that he spent as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi were nevertheless ... Twain has long been accused of giving Huck Finn an overly pat, comic ending.

While it may seem that Mark Twain’s worldview can be traced to small-town America, Chernow argues that it was the freedom Sam Clemens found on the river ... of “Huck Finn” that centers ...