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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman in San ...

You have to wonder what Mark Twain would have done with the internet. As a 29-year-old San Francisco journalist, the writer used to sling off 2,000 word articles and send them via stage coach each day ...

UC Berkeley’s Mark Twain Papers and Project is focusing on piecing together Mark Twain’s work as a young reporter and writer in the 19th century through campus archival work. The project highlights ...

But Saturday’s show at the Carrboro ArtsCenter imagines what the great American writer, lecturer and satirist would say if he lived today. The one-man show, entitled “Mark Twain Now,” was written by ...

"This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain's private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, ...

A new touring version of “Mark Twain Tonight!” starring Richard Thomas will have its first performances at TheaterWorks Hartford on Aug. 12-24, the theater announced Thursday. The show was originally ...

The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum will be showing a quilt inspired by Twain's writing this summer. Kathy McNeil, the quilt's creator, has agreed to let the museum display her award-winning quilt, ...

“Mark Twain’s River of Song” isn’t a particularly bad title for a Mark Twain musical. A bit sentimental sounding, surely, but straight to the point. The “River” part evokes both author Samuel Clemens’ ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

The reputation of the fourth estate has waxed and waned over the course of American's history, sometimes thanks to the criticisms of public figures — including members of the press itself — ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...