This week in history, Samuel Clemens first used the pen name Mark Twain in a Virginia City newspaper, the “Territorial ...

American author Mark Twain's most notable claim to fame is penning ... The only thing that may have rivaled the prose he poured from his pen is his love for the alcohol he poured into his glass.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hartford-based Mark Twain House and Museum was recongnized in a list ...

Explore Mark Twain's greatest books, from timeless adventures to sharp wit and humor. Discover the classics that shaped American literature.

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

While there, Clemens began to write again -- and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or about 12 feet) deep.

The prize's namesake, author Mark Twain, divined his pen name from a navigation term used by steamboat captains on a river. Many of his most famous works including the "Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Twain well knew that by making a reader laugh, his pen was welcomed into that reader's mind ... He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," ...