Tag: Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn Dropped From School
To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are being eliminated from the curriculum in the Duluth, Minnesota school district. Their reasoning is that "the classic novels’ use of racial...
FOUND: Lost Works of Mark Twain
When author and American icon Mark Twain was in his late twenties, he worked as a newspaper reporter. Writing articles for a California paper then known as the San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle....
Mark Twain Turns 176
L. McMaken
12-8-11
Cincinnati, OH
November 30th marked the 176 birthday of the iconic American author, Mark Twain. His death coincided with the passing Hailey's Comet, as did his birth 75 years earlier. Perhaps the...