Conan O'Brien receives Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center It was ... along with others who had been influenced by his work, including John Mulaney and Kumail Nanjiani. O'Brien was announced ...

In this centenary year of Mark Twain’s death, it may seem that literary detectives have long since ransacked nearly every aspect of his life and works. Yet Laura Wright remains among the final ...

The Minerva Charitable Fund presents the Largely Literary Theater Company’s Twain by Two in a special fundraising event on Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m., at the Roxy Theatre. The two-act collection of ...

I think accepting an award named after Mark Twain is a responsibility ... First and foremost, Twain hated bullies. He populated his works with abusers such as Huck Finn’s alcoholic father ...

Pulitzer-winning biographer Ron Chernow will discuss his new biography of Mark Twain on June 10 at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford.

"They work hard to promote the arts. And so I want to be here in that spirit." Accepting an award named after Mark Twain was "a responsibility" because of the satirist's "core principles," he told ...