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...

Regardless of medium, journalists must be excellent storytellers One of the benefits of this column is the chance to engage in a conversation of sorts with journalists. Last mondi, an e-mail showed up asking "do you have any advice for a recent journalism...

LESLIE KOREN, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-24-2003 STORY BY STORY -- A WRITER'S RIDGEWOOD VICTORIAN GIVES HIM PLENTY OF INSPIRATION By LESLIE KOREN, STAFF WRITER Date: 04-24-2003, Thursday Section: HOME Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star...