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When an adult, Clemens changed his name to Mark Twain, a romantic name that put some distance between himself and his poverty-stricken childhood, but Churchill kept his proud aristocratic name.

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year of Haley's Comet, and vowed he would live to see the comet pass over again. Indeed, Twain died in 1910 ...

In the year 1867, the 31-year-old Mark Twain joined several dozen other Americans on a pleasure cruise across the Atlantic to see the sights around the Mediterranean Sea. When in Syria ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

The Grolier Club will explore the singular wit of American literary legend Mark Twain in the new exhibition A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor.