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 ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

Hannibal Area Chamber of Commerce will be selling burgers, steak sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks during the event. The ...

As part of a tour of Northeast Missouri, Missouri's Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger made a stop in his hometown of ...

Courtesy of The Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford ... born in 1835 and raised in Hannibal, Mo., a “white town drowsing in the sunshine” on the banks of the Mississippi, as Twain would ...

At 1,174 pages, Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is essentially the same ... After a boyhood spent in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri, the young Sam Clemens began writing for ...

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where ... 90 miles due east of Twain’s Hannibal, Missouri, said of his service in the Black Hawk War, “Mr. Speaker ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

The Mark Twain closely associated with Hannibal rarely returned to it. By the time Twain began writing Huckleberry Finn, he had given up on the South and transformed from barefoot Missouri rascal ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this ... Samuel Clemens was born in Hannibal, Mo., in 1835, a spot that bridged North and South, East and West, at a moment in history ...