Though Mark Twain had a special love for a hard-to-come-by tropical fruit, there's a similar species you can find closer to ...

"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

The site even includes obituaries about Mark Twain. This site provides the most detailed look at Rogers' life. Biographical information is arranged under the following headings: performer ...

Mark Twain’s wit and wisdom remain as sharp and ... than just clever phrasing—they challenge us to think deeper about life, love, courage, and humanity. Twain didn’t just observe life ...

A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico ... The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside ...

Then there comes a short autobiographic summary of Mr. Clemen's life after he had ceased to be a pilot and several other things, and until he became a New Englander; followed by an account of the ...

This brand new book by local publisher Prometheus Books is a must read by anyone interested in Mark Twain and his life in literature, or Buffalo during the booming post-Civil War era. Tom Reigstad ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...