Theatre hall of fame inductee Richard Thomas is bringing Mark Twain back to the Clemens Center this week for two nights.

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

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from as near as the next block and as far away as Iran - more than 700 "Twainies" anxious for a shot at finishing a unpublished story by Mark Twain and winning the first ...

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

I remember the first time I read Tom Sawyer and how free I felt as the pages turned. Then, in High School, when I cracked Huckleberry Finn and learned so much about life in the South. Twain's writing ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

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, ...