HANNIBAL, Mo. - Samuel Clemens' hometown has grown accustomed to Mark Twain mania over the years. But even in Hannibal - a town of 18,000 that draws a half-million Twain tourists annually - there's ...
One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...
“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...
Netflix has inked a new multiyear deal with John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the streamer to become the exclusive home for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The deal with kick ...
America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...
In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity — ...
Salman Rushdie’s new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why In ‘Queen Esther,’ John Irving travels back to ‘The Cider House Rules’ Bruce Lee biographer Jeff Chang is fighting ...
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What we get wrong about Mark Twain
It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, “The yacht race! I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, ...
The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of ...
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