It was a cheerful morning in December of 1908, in Danbury, Connecticut. Clara Clemens, the daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), was out for a sleigh ride with her future husband, Russian ...

The story of Clara, Nina, Jacques, and the fate of Clemens’s copyrighted empire is told here: “ I Am Your Loving Daughter, Clara Clemens.” Hal Holbrook, who in January, age 95, went to the Actor’s ...

Grand View Memorial Park had only been open for an hour on Sunday and had already welcomed 40 cars of people eager to visit tombstones of loved ones at the cemetery. The cemetery has entered ...

To call Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography of Mark Twain monumental is an understatement. With the publication of the third volume, The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910, ...

Joan of Arc. In the Autobiography, Mark Twain tells of the difficulty an audience once had to divine the meaning of a charade acted by small Susy and small Clara Clemens, of which the syllables ...