Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

Mark Twain did not supply the specter’s real-life name, but scholar Howard Baetzhold ... frock puffing about in the wind of that ancient Mississippi time.” As Sam mourned his brother, Laura ...

I have done it all my life and consider ... the deck of the Mark Twain Riverboat in summer, to explore caves and pull pranks and have sword battles with driftwood on the Mississippi shoreline ...

Twain ran his parallel careers as public raconteur and Yankee grandee, the roles that eventually imprisoned him. Late in life, chafing at the constrictions of his chosen persona, Twain wrote sharp ...

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and ...

If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain ... about life in America. He had even published a few. But about 1857, on a trip down the Mississippi ...

Brandon Himmel, music minister of the First Christian Church, will entertain during a night of Southern Gospel Music on the ...