Early Life: Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Mo., the Mississippi River town that served as the setting for many of his famous books. After his father died when he was 11, Clemens became a printer's ...

On a recent day in Hannibal, Mo., the boyhood hometown of Mark Twain, the Mississippi River was running fast and muddy, with some chop — a fitting metaphor for the final stage of the presidential ...

This, Sweets said, was the cemetery Mark Twain remembered when he imagined the midnight murder of Doc Robinson in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" -- grave markers leaning every which way, Tom and Huck ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — It was a century-and-a-half ago that Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain. His hometown of Hannibal will mark the occasion with a special event Saturday. Clemens was born in 1835 in ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — Nancy Lee Kaufman was prominent in the arts scene in chic Santa Fe, N.M., and later made her woven art along the ocean near San Diego. So how did she end up living in a previously ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Mark Twain once quipped, "The lack of money is the root of all evil." But starting early next year, some of Twain's favorite places -- his Missouri hometown, the New England community ...

Saturday the Southeast Missourian Centennial Celebration will offer hours of entertainment ranging from Sousa-style march music, Creole sounds, a 13-year-old bluegrass prodigy, and magic to the wisdom ...