The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

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Julian McMahon and Shannen Doherty briefly dated during the making of their classic TV series Charmed. Tragically, the ...

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

Mark Twain — the subject of a new, 1,033-page biography by Ron Chernow — has been called “the Lincoln of our literature,” but his January 1869 lecture in Danville left ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.