ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — A beloved piece of literary history is getting an authentic restoration, and people are invited to learn all about it on Wednesday. If you’ve ever wanted a closer look at where ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

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, a celebrated American writer, penned classics like Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His life experiences shaped his humorous and critical writing. Twain's sharp observations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his publisher. In 1885, at the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In ...

McAvoy tells of a second experience when he was at Mark Twain’s California cabin in Tuolumne County for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The site is where Twain is believed to have written one of his most ...

Mark Twain’s many lives. A new biography depicts the different sides of the American author. Some people live several lives. Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his ...

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Broadway and Hollywood songwriter Marc Shaiman looks back with pessimistic humor in memoir Shelley Read’s debut novel ‘Go as a River’ becomes a global sensation 38 novels and nonfiction books coming ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...