The New Yorker · 5dThe Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
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The Herald Star · 12hThe day ‘Mark Twain’ visited library
Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look at the inspirations behind the author’s most famous novels and suggested how one that has been deemed controversial
Mark Twain Evades the Wokeness Trap
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark ...
Check It Out: Mark Twain left lasting legacy
Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died 115 years ago, on April 21, 1910. He is widely regarded as one of America’s finest authors, especially in humor and travel writing. Twain was 74 ...
Transcontinental Railroad: Mark Twain on the Railroad
Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and working out West in his book Roughing It, published in 1872. In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by ...
Samuel Clemens Biography
"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...
Mark Twain, Self-Appointed Literary Critic
Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...
‘Hamilton’ biographer Ron Chernow coming to Hartford as he takes on Mark Twain in new book
The 1,000-page biography, simply titled “Mark Twain,” will be published ... The house where Twain and his family lived from 1874 to 1891 is an historical landmark and a museum that regularly ...
The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer
Guardians of the City, San Francisco Fire Museum; Isador Laurent Deroy, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division On a rainy afternoon in June 1863, Mark Twain was nursing a bad hangover ...
Opinion: Channeling CT’s Mark Twain on politics and truth
It might be asking too much to bring back Mark Twain from the grave. The great author passed away on April 21, 1910, some 115 years and a day or two ago in Redding, Connecticut and we ain’t had ...
Mark Twain's 10-Sentence Course on Branding and Marketing
No need to stop to see whether you can come up with the answer, because it's too obvious: Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain ... patented a history trivia game and funded the work of other inventors. But Twain recognized ...