The complete online text of Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

Sports fans know Alonzo Mourning as a six-time NBA All-Star and Defensive Player of the Year, former center for the Miami Heat, and a gold medallist at the 2000 Olympics. But "Zo" is also recognized widely as one of the most generous, giving...

Alonzo Washington has lost more than most to the D.C. streets. First his father, gunned down in a W Street robbery when Alonzo was 7. Then his mom, lost in a more complicated, private way. Then a brother, who now resides at Lorton. Yet...