After the discussion, have students compose a culminating writing, using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author had ...

James is not the Jim from Mark Twain’s late 19th century masterpiece ... told NPR that he isn’t trying to erase Twain. “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of Twain ...

Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving Dodge, at the helm of the Indian Department. "There’s a man who ...

The portrait his research paints here is one of a vibrant personality writing for and managing ... There are dozens of books written about Mark Twain and his exceedingly important contributions ...

He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented ... All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. Twain tried ...

he even invested in a watch company that launched a signature 'Mark Twain' pocket watch Stephen J. Mexal The aspiring author knew Olivia Langdon was the one when he first laid eyes on a photograph ...

Dixon, M. Christine Benner 2014. The Pain Economy: Mark Twain’s Masochistic Understanding of Pain. American Literary Realism, Vol. 47, Issue. 1, p. 71.

American author Mark Twain's most notable claim to fame is penning ... in a letter to his wife in 1874 while he was in London, writing, "Livy my darling, I want you to be sure & remember to ...

Celebrated American author Mark Twain was very dismissive of people who think it is possible for someone to learn how to write a novel. "A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a ...

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that ... who had died just days after finishing his manuscript. Twain appreciated Grant's writing, and he praised the Memoirs sincerely.