The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure   “Astute. ...

The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure   “Astute. ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872—1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known auth...

In this book I will suggest that Twain himself and the critics have ignored or obscured the Afric...

In Listening To Silences, a group of distinguished feminist literary critics reevaluates Olsen's ...

Mark Twain has been called the American Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernes...

Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and...

Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are Co-Directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in No...

'For those unaware--as I was until I read this book--that Mark Twain was one of America's early a...

Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are Co-Directors of the Chinese Railroad Workers in No...

'Mark Twain,' William Faulkner once observed, 'was the first truly American writer, and all of us...

Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and ...

Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The ...

Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The ...

Walt Whitman spent twenty-five years as a journalist before he published his first book of poems....