And, like any legendary figure, the myths about Twain are hard to untangle from reality. For example, if you search for great ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

Such is the case with Mark Twain, whose famous quip about his own death is frequently butchered by well-meaning admirers, as This Day In Quotes explains. You’ve probably heard that Twain once ...

According to the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College ... Twain made the statement — but quotes misattributed on the internet to famous people is a common occurrence.

And although the Twitter user put the words in quotes, they didn’t attribute it to the writer Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens. By March 2021, it appears people on Twitter started to ...