President William Howard Taft and writer Mark Twain are a few of the famous figures to spend time at a New Hampshire mansion featured on popular social media real estate account Zillow Gone Wild. The ...
Jeffrey L. Nichols has been named as the new executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum following a nationwide search that took over a year. Nichols succeeds Pieter Roos, who served as ...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center will hold a conversation at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, who ...
Before writing “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," great American author Mark Twain was drawn to Hartford for its vibrant literary scene, settling in the Connecticut ...
Mark Twain never played with LEGOs, but the 20th-century toy can now be seen at his 19th-century Hartford home. On Tuesday, a LEGO model of the Mark Twain House went on display at the museum's exhibit ...
The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Writers from across the country are descending on the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, for an annual weekend of lectures and workshops. This year's Writers Weekend ...
One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...