Maurice Sendak's “Wild Things” book is regularly challenged by book banners because of its dark mood and supernatural themes.

While visiting the place where Mark Twain penned some of his most famous tales, Illinois Wesleyan Professor of English James ...

The Territorial Enterprise building where Twain began his writing career burned down in a fire nearly a decade after the ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. One hundred thirteen years later, on Oct. 20, 1948, ...

Shania Twain is no nepo baby -- she worked hard and took a lot of humble gigs to make a living before she was the country-pop ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Mark Twain House visitors can explore more than just literary history, but they can ...

A taste of Mark Twain is coming to Elmira with the return of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, performed by award-winning ...

The “universal river” that Twain traversed, all he saw and felt and wrote about can’t really be recaptured by a biographer.

Growing up in a book-filled Cambridge house, the middle daughter of two successful writers, it is unsurprising that Hester ...

Richard Thomas, best known as John Boy Walton in The Waltons and for his portrayal of Atticus Finch on the Tulsa stage in 2024, will bring a one-man show about Mark Twain to the Tulsa Performing Arts ...

When he was a boy walking the streets in Hannibal, Missouri, pages from a biography of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) were swept up to Samuel Clemens’ feet. Upon reading the strewn pages, Clemens inquired of ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...