Discover who Mark Twain was. Check his biography, real name, famous books, quotes, visit to India, life tragedies, and ...

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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 ...

To commemorate the 100-year anni­versary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has ...

“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 ...

The second volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published — a scant 113 years after his death. Volume One, published in 2010, was a bestseller. The 700-page book is filled with the ...

In 1904, Mark Twain wrote that he had "hit upon the right way to do an Autobiography." What he had discovered, says historian Robert Hirst, was the art of dictation. Instead of writing down his ...

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 ...

Over the last 40 years of his life, Mark Twain scribbled endless anecdotes left in the form of fat manuscript to eventually be published as his autobiography, with most penned by a stenographer in the ...

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