When Maverick Simon, 14, of Mound House received two perfect scores in the high school division of Carson City’s first Mark Twain Days Writing Contest, it brought his mother to tears. Maverick, who is ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Visit this quiet corner of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, and you might get a case of literary deja vu. "There's rare collected works of Mark Twain, there are first ...

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from as near as the next block and as far away as Iran - more than 700 "Twainies" anxious for a shot at finishing a unpublished story by Mark Twain and winning the first ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract This article traces the evolution of Mark Twain's early travel writing by comparing intersections between recorded travel and nature ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of letters written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In the ...

On the matter of being paid for their writing, he said this would take care of itself, because anyone who produced literary work of real value would “require more hands than you have now, and more ...

The Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department presents two free writing workshops for the community on April 22 as part of the Mark Twain Days Festival. The workshops will take place at ...

I do a bit of public speaking, and in the course of it I sometimes quote Mark Twain three times. Each time, he gets heartier and more prolonged laughs than my own bons mots. I've now taken to adding, ...

The Chronicle won the best-of-show award for newswriting Saturday in the annual contest sponsored by the Associated Press News Executives Council. The prize, dubbed the Mark Twain Award, honored ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In ...