Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

THE OCTAGONAL study overlooks the green of Elmira College in upstate New York. In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “A Connecticut ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Ron Chernow’s latest ... of George Washington and Ulysses Grant. The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. It’s Chernow’s first release since ...

Mark Richards To Mark Twain, San Francisco was coffee with fresh cream at the Ocean House, a hotel and restaurant ... first carload of Baltimore and New York oysters in shells, cans, kegs, all ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — The owner of the Historic Near Westside Historic District and director of Mark Twain tours welcomed ... The touring group was from Jordan, New York, which is right outside ...

Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York was designated a Literary Landmark Wednesday, May 3 rd, 2017 in honor of Mark Twain, the renowned American ... In a study about 100 yards from the main house on the ...

Jeffrey L. Nichols has been named as the new executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum following a nationwide search that took over a year. Nichols succeeds Pieter Roos, who served as ...

A $1 million state grant will help fund a project to convert the former Arnot Carriage House in downtown Elmira into a ...

Mark Twain was America ... he went national when in 1865 a New York newspaper picked up his story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Twain moved east, and his career took ...