Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his publisher. In 1885, at the ...

Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and lifted post-Civil War spirits ...

Re: “Mark Twain’s words about patriotism can ease our injured pride” (July 6, Northwest): Columnist Danny Westneat reflected well on Mark Twain’s wisdom that “ … true patriotism … is loyalty to the ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal. Twain is best known for the novels set in his boyhood ...

Given the statements and actions of the regime currently in power in our country, it’s time to review the national conversation that took place 125 years ago on the subject of American imperialism. A ...

Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is a mountain of a book. As Mark Twain is one of my all-time favorites — and probably the most important and influential writer who put words into my brain — I couldn’t wait ...