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,” ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...