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One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

To commemorate the 100-year anni­versary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has ...

"Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1," Mark Twain, University of California Press, 740 pages. Comic, showman and savvy sage. No, not Jon Stewart. We're talking ...

100 years after his death, Mark Twain's autobiography was published the way Twain himself wished. Fresh Air's David Bianculli talks with Robert... On Publishing Mark Twain's Autobiography In 1904, ...

A hundred years in the making, it’s the hottest Christmas present to ever come out of a University Press. The Autobiography of Mark Twain debuted at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list and six ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (388 pp.)—Edited by Charles Neider—Harper ($6). “I am not alive. I am dead,” wrote Mark Twain. “I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I ...

The second volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published — a scant 113 years after his death. Volume One, published in 2010, was a bestseller. The 700-page book is filled with the ...

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules ...