Join us as we explore the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to the world as Mark Twain. Born shortly after the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835 and dying one day after its return in 1910, Twain’s life was as spectacular as the celestial event he predicted would mark his end,.

In this episode, we navigate the Mississippi River of his youth in Hannibal, Missouri—the real-life inspiration for the fictional St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—and discover how a riverboat pilot’s cry for "safe water" became the most famous pen name in American literature,. We examine his rise from a failed miner in the American West to the "father of American literature," whose work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often cited as the Great American Novel,.

Beyond the satire, we uncover the complexities of the man who ...