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

A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means water that is two fathoms (or about 12 feet) deep. Twain's experiences in the first three decades of his life became fodder for the stories he ...

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 ...

On this day, we commemorate the birth anniversary of one of America's literary giants, Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, ...

During his twilight years, American author Mark Twain noted that "life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18." So it's not hard to ...