The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

Set in Arkansas, "Tom Sawyer, Detective" was a novella written by Mark Twain and published in 1896. It was a parody of mystery stories, especially the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle, ...

In what is apparently the only existing footage of Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, the author and Atlantic contributor goes for a stroll, smoking a cigar in his signature white suit. The clip, ...

Emmy-winning actor Richard Thomas has moved on from playing one legend -- Atticus Finch in the national tour of "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- to another: 19th-century author and humorist Mark Twain. He's ...

Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is a mountain of a book. As Mark Twain is one of my all-time favorites — and probably the most important and influential writer who put words into my brain — I couldn’t wait ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...