"When we remember that we are all mad," Mark Twain wrote in his notebooks, "the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained." Justin Kaplan's remarkable new biography of Samuel Langhorne ...

And how could that bio, produced by a university press at 700+ pages—with more than 200 of them ... No need to stop to see whether you can come up with the answer, because it's too obvious: Samuel ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.