Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers, is known for his wit, wisdom, and unforgettable characters like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. But there's more to this literary legend than meets ...

Much of Twain’s writing in this period came in the form of “letters” – columns of about 2,000 words each written from his home in San Francisco to the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal.

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher, the daughter of the local judge – came out in 1876. And ever since the ...

Twain’s upbringing put him in close contact with black Americans. The Missouri of Twain’s youth was a slave state. His father owned and rented people. His mother took a dim view of abolitionism.

Yet I contend that Mark Twain (one of the great science-fiction writers of all time) first conceived the Internet. Like the wizards of the 1960s and ’70s, his contribution has been forgotten.

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 ...