Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man ...
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 … is loyalty to the ...
The “universal river” that Twain traversed, all he saw and felt and wrote about can’t really be recaptured by a biographer.