An iconic piece of American literature received some special attention in hopes of preserving it for future generations. Mark Twain’s original handwritten manuscript of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” ...

Mark Twain has had quite the year with “James,” a telling of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, winning a Pulitzer Prize and historian Ron Chernow releasing a biography about the author in May. But ...

Mark Twain fans will find plenty of cool things to do in Hannibal, from visiting lighthouses and conservation areas to ...

Step into the pages of American history! Hannibal, Missouri, is the legendary hometown of Mark Twain.

Set in Arkansas, "Tom Sawyer, Detective" was a novella written by Mark Twain and published in 1896. It was a parody of mystery stories, especially the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle, ...

On a rainy afternoon in June 1863, Mark Twain was nursing a bad hangover inside Ed Stahle’s fashionable Montgomery Street steam rooms, halfway through a two-month visit to San Francisco that would ...