Actor Alan Kitty was about 8 years old and living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when he first read Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” “I finished the book and the following day, I ran away ...

I recently read Mark Twain’s “The Innocents Abroad,” one of the most irreverent travel books written. It follows Twain’s experience on a six-month steamship voyage through Europe and the Holy Land in ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive / ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place. Every year on November 30, readers pause to honor a birthday that changed ...

I continue to read Mark Twain’s secondary books — the ones beyond the classics “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer.” My most recent was “Following the Equator,” describing his lecture tour around the ...