Samuel Clemens (the real name of author Mark Twain), is one of the most well-loved writers of all time, certainly up there with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and ...

Sparks flew as Sea Tea Improv presented “R Rated Twain,” a selection of racy and salacious writings by Mark Twain at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford on Thursday night. The local improv ...

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of ...

Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died 115 years ago, on April 21, 1910. He is widely regarded as one of America’s finest authors, especially in humor and travel writing. Twain was 74 when he ...

One of the most renowned and popular authors and philosophers, Mark Twain, who has influenced people with his inspirational words until today. This is because of his profound, yet straightforward ...

In the spring of 2019, while researching my book on Mark Twain, I came across a reference to a Twain novel, “Jap Herron,” written in 1917. This was a surprising discovery since I have been studying ...

“When I walk into a theater, I’m at home,” the actor said. “And when I walk out on the stage, it’s the most comfortable place for me to be.” By Kathryn Shattuck Test your knowledge of novels written ...

In March, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts bestowed its annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on the former late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien. At the awards ceremony, ...