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 ...

Musical based on the novel by Mark Twain written by Grammy Award winner Don Schlitz ("The Gambler," "The Battle Hymn of Love," "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin'") and Ken Ludwig (Crazy For You, Lend Me A ...

Fire & Light Productions will open “The Mystery of Tom Sawyer” tonight. The show, written by late local theater icon Harvey Cocks, is an adaptation of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tom Sawyer abroad -- Tom Sawyer, detective -- The stolen white elephant -- Some rambling notes of an idle excursion -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- About ...