Mark Twain lived half a dozen. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri, he saw his family reduced to living in cramped quarters above ...

"Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, examines the life of one of ...

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2. THE HAMPTONS LAWYER, by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. (Little, Brown) The third book in the Jane Smith thriller series.

Richard Bammer's column appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Reporter. Mark Twain covered Congress for a brief period for various newspapers in the post-Civil War era, from 1867 to ...

1. THE IDAHO FOUR, by James Patterson and Vicky Ward. (Little, Brown) Investigations into the murders of four University of ...

I shall not insist here upon Mark Twain as a moralist,’ Howells wrote, ‘though I warn the reader that if he leaves out of the ...

Object Details author Chernow, Ron Subject Grant, Ulysses S (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 United States Army Notes AAPG copy has bookplate: Gift from Andrew Oliver Contents Introduction: The Sphinx ...

At just 31, Mark Twain sailed to Europe and the Holy Land on the steamship Quaker City, an excursion that resulted in his first great literary success, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims ...

It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel. Having read all six of her ...

The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (July 20) By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles As summer revs up, here are three cool new novels, and a work of history that's wilder than ...