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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I remember the first time I read Tom Sawyer and how free I felt as the pages turned. Then, in High School, when I cracked Huckleberry Finn and learned so much about life in the South. Twain's writing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...