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...

Americans have been frog-wild for jumping contests ever since Mark Twain's famous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," was published in the late 1800s. One of the biggest contests is held in Calaveras County, California, the setting of Twain's original...

Byline: Charles McChesney Staff writer "Frogs usually jump when they want to," Jason Reilly said. Reilly, the non-amphibious part of Jason's Jumping Frog show at this weekend's Oswego County Fair, said he can provide different types of presentations. For schools, he...