BUFFALO, N.Y. -- They came from as near as the next block and as far away as Iran - more than 700 "Twainies" anxious for a shot at finishing a unpublished story by Mark Twain and winning the first ...

The “universal river” that Twain traversed, all he saw and felt and wrote about can’t really be recaptured by a biographer.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In ...

Best-selling author Ron Chernow's list of works has revealed details of historical titans easily identified by surnames -- Grant, Washington, Rockefeller. He even inspired the hit broadway musical ...

Chernow will be appearing in Elmira at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 to kick off the fall Trouble Begins lecture series, presented by the ...

Biographer Ron Chernow discusses his new book "Mark Twain." Mark Twain has been called the greatest humorist the United States has produced. A courageous activist for racial equality throughout the ...

It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, “The yacht race! I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, ...