Mark Twain was first encountered by the reviewer as the avuncular, white-haired visage joining the purple-clad Robert Louis ...

He had long fantasized about, but also long postponed, this momentous return to the river. "But when I come to write the Mississippi book," he promised his wife, Livy, " then look out!

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway wrote in 1935. Twain’s masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” ...

"Towboat On The River" (1953) explores the significance of American rivers as vital transportation highways, tracing their historical use from Native Americans to modern towboats. It highlights the ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is holding a day-long celebration for the historic building’s 150th anniversary on Saturday with music, readings and more.

NEWARK, N.J. — Roberta Harrington, a retired nurse of the same vintage as Philip Roth, remembers a visit a year ago by Roth to his clapboard boyhood home, which she now lives in, on Summit ...

You don't have to be a literary junkie to love the Mark Twain Country helicopter tour. "Some people want to hear about [landmarks]; others just want to take in the views," said pilot Tom Freeman ...

A 160 years later, Laureen and I recently drove through Reno, Nevada, and enjoyed our time in the "Biggest Little City in the World." Reno had been great, strolling hand in hand along the river ...

Ron Chernow on the life of Mark Twain The Mississippi Valley is "as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it … nothing to hang a fret or worry upon." It's a ...

Local News Source of mysterious sheen on Mississippi River revealed The sheen was initially reported at the Highway 610 Bridge in Coon Rapids on Tuesday.

Mark Twain allegedly once wrote, in response to news reports confusing him with a cousin, that "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." According to Snopes, that story isn't quite true ...

A Davenport biologist has been nationally recognized for his work on a lock and dam project on the Mississippi River. Mark Cornish's office is in the Clock Tower Building on the Rock Island ...