It’s almost as though the old sage of the Mississippi, better known as Mark Twain, is trying to reposition himself as the King, as friends and colleagues called him long years before Elvis was ...

North Callaway was set to take on Mark Twain in a district game on Monday. The Thunderbirds (10-1) (5-0) will now take on the Mark Twain Tigers (0-8) (0-3) on Thursday, Apr. 24th at Mark Twain High ...

This excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is quite good. Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the ...

Conan O’Brien is opening up about his decision to honor a commitment he made to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Several performers have ...

‘My books are simply autobiographies,’ Mark Twain once confessed. True of most American writers, it seems especially true of a man who, as Ron Powers argues in this magisterial biography, ‘found a ...

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