Twain left some 30 books and pamphlets, thousands of newspaper and magazine pieces, as well as notebooks, unpublished manuscripts, and a mountainous three-volume autobiography whose mixture of fact ...

The idea of Ben Shattuck’s “The History of Sound” winning the 2025 Mark Twain American Voices in Literature Award from the Mark Twain House & Museum seems impossibly appropriate. The short story ...

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, remains one of the most influential literary voices in history. Writing under the pen name Mark Twain, he was far more than a novelist. He was a sharp ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...

This month, NewSouth Books will release a combined volume of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, edited by Twain scholar Alan Gribben, a professor at Auburn University. In ...

An Oregon man, Jack Ainsworth Mills, has a watch that may have been a gift to his grandfather from noted American author, Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain. Mr. Mills has always wondered ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - February 3, 1863. The writer, originally known as Samuel Clemens, adopts his now-famous pen name, Mark Twain. He signed a humorous travel dispatch for a Nevada newspaper with ...