The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mark Twain Lake has temporarily closed Indian Creek Beach due to an increased presence of ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Biographer Ron Chernow was evidently short on time ...

Now, in “Mark Twain,” Chernow turns to the life of the ... “Heart Lamp" is a collection of stories about Indian Muslim women’s daily struggles with bothersome husbands, mothers and ...

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Moments before the start of each match, Isaac Spurgeon and Uriah Scott flip a tee to see who’ll be Indian Creek’s No. 1 player. Heads or tails, the Braves are in capable hands regardless.

Mark Twain has been called the greatest humorist the United States has produced. A courageous activist for racial equality throughout the 1800s, Twain entertained and informed his audiences ...

In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before there existed the supposedly indispensable mechanisms of celebrity ...

Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise that his biography of author and humorist Mark Twain clocks in at more than 1,000 pages.

After capturing imagery of Twain in the woods, they decided she would do some nude shots in Lake Placid. They ventured out to the water one foggy morning before sunrise. “She was all done up ...

Indian-origin Canadian leaders in Mark Carney's cabinet: Maninder Sidhu, Anita Anand, Randeep Sarai and Ruby Sahota. (left to right) Before being officially elected as the full-term Canadian prime ...