My great-great-grandfather would always talk about his run-ins with the literary giants of his day, but I never realized the true extent to which he brushed elbows with famous authors until I ...

For years, Twain scholars have been fascinated with George Griffin. Born enslaved, many believe Griffin’s calm demeanor and intelligence was the inspiration for Jim, the resourceful runaway enslaved ...

Reporting from Virginia City, Nev. — One wonders what Mark Twain himself would make of the news: The Gold Rush-era newspaper for which he once penned stories and witticisms on frontier life as a ...

Mark Twain's sharp wit highlights our tendency to readily spot others' flaws while overlooking our own. This enduring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

A newly revealed Mark Twain essay gives host Scott Simon some advice on how do his job. Scott discusses the art and the aggravation of the interview with writer Calvin Trillin, another humorist from ...

SAN FRANCISCO-- Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman in San Francisco.

It is hard to believe - because he looms so large in our national letters - that Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens in 1835, died 100 years ago, on April 21. The anniversary of his death provides an ...

Who flies to Reno on a spring evening, rents a car and heads into the mountains with no skis, no mountain bike and a backpack full of books? Me. Why? Because in 1861 a 25-year-old Missouri riverboat ...