When Samuel was 11, his father died, and the boy went to work ... While there, Clemens began to write again -- and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain ...

Percival Everett reveals a lot about his reworking of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry ... murder to escape from his abusive, alcoholic father. James knows that the coincidence of his ...

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 ...

His marital home on Delaware Avenue (provided and lavishly furnished by Twain’s father-in-law who protectively ... There are dozens of books written about Mark Twain and his exceedingly ...