The book appears to have come into Twain’s library through Olivia. The inscription, which bears her maiden name, Langdon, suggests she picked up the book in June 1864, before she met him.

QUINCY — Quincy University added more than 420 books to its collection — all from the Mark Twain Collection from Fontbonne University in Clayton, Mo. Fontbonne University announced in March ...

It was the first time the book was banned in the United States, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last. Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping ...

Ron Chernow, who wrote the bestselling biography of Alexander Hamilton that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical “Hamilton,” has now trained his scholarly eye on Hartford legend Mark ...