Today, we celebrate the 190th birthday of the “father of American literature,” Mark Twain, a storyteller whose wit, wisdom, and honesty spoke to the heart Every child deserves a safe and nurturing ...

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.

While the sitting president rage-posted, mourners memorialized Dick Cheney—and an earlier political era. Here’s yet another ...

Washington’s old guard turned out to pay respects, with Biden, Harris, Pence, and Bush in attendance, and Trump and Vance ...

Mark Twain is coming to a theatre near you! Kind of... Emmy-Award Winning actor Richard Thomas will star in a new production of Mark Twain Tonight! on stages across North America, bringing along Twain ...

When he was a boy walking the streets in Hannibal, Missouri, pages from a biography of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) were swept up to Samuel Clemens’ feet. Upon reading the strewn pages, Clemens inquired of ...

Thomas, now 74 (how can John Boy be 74?), is older that Twain was as he speaks directly to the audience, retelling family stories, philosophizing about American ways, playing Huck, nailing politicians ...

The late Hal Holbrook, in addition to a long career on large and small screens, did a pretty good job of recreating 19th century literary luminary Samuel Langhorne Clemens in his one-man stage show, ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...

This column first appeared in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader on Feb. 14, 2009. I'm a sucker for aphorisms, those pithy statements that tell us how to live better or offer insights on human nature.

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.