Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping ...

Now, Kitty brings that voice home to Sarasota with the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the historic Crocker Church in ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place.

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

After writing his 5,000 page autobiography, Mark Twain made a solemn request for it not to be published until 100 years after his death. Those hundred years are up now, and the University of ...

Adam Sandler has now received one of the highest awards in the comedy industry, taking home the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday. After a nearly three-hour ceremony held in Washington, ...

In the vein of his earlier trademark biographies on George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alexander Hamilton, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow’s latest is a comprehensive look at the life and ...

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.