Mark Twain was one of America's greatest writers, humourists and lecturers. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30 November ...

My great-great-grandfather would always talk about his run-ins with the literary giants of his day, but I never realized the true extent to which he brushed elbows with famous authors until I ...

See Iowa locations on the Mississippi that stood out for Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, as he revisited the river that set ...