The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Rivers of America, the Liberty Square Riverboat and Tom Sawyer Island at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla, is closing and ...

Walt Disney World is closing several iconic attractions beginning Monday to make room for a brand-new land. Frontierland's ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

All references to the Mark Twain riverboat have been removed from the Disneyland Paris website, indicating that there is no intention to fix the abandoned boat. Disneyland Paris Riverboats Years ...

“Mark twain” is what a steamboat crew member yelled out to tell the Captain the depth of the river. “Mark twain” is two fathoms, or 12 feet. I assumed you wanted to know.

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.

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 ...

By comparison, Justin Kaplan’s penetrating 1966 biography, “Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, came in at a brisk 424 pages.

The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality The Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history.