Almost 130 years later, this quote still resonates.

A student from Phnom Penh’s Tuol Tompong High School has been crowned the inaugural winner of an annual essay-writing contest named for the famed American novelist Photo by: Eleanor Ainge ROY Mak Vann ...

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from as near as the next block and as far away as Iran - more than 700 "Twainies" anxious for a shot at finishing a unpublished story by Mark Twain and winning the first ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes. Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer, publishing American classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – 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 the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's one of the most fascinating places to visit in downtown Buffalo. The Mark Twain Room in the Buffalo & Erie County Central Library contains the handwritten work of the former Buffalo resident who ...