Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially American. Their approach was direct, their words plain, and their humor caught the ...

Conan O’Brien has been selected by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to receive the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize, which is named to honor one of the world ...

It Happened in Hartford” honors the happy home life the Twains experienced in Hartford with a museum exhibit and walking tour ...

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom, just like MLK quotes.Born Samuel Clemens, Twain was a very successful writer, publishing American classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 ...

Here’s Tina Fey Telling Some Jokes and Accepting a Humor Prize Tina Fey accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last week, but the ceremony just aired on PBS last night. Here’s a ...

Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and ... when perhaps not more than ten men in America, all told, expected to live to see a railroad follow that route to the Pacific.

Where to read it: Penguin Random House. American writer Mark Twain (second from left) celebrating his 70th birthday. In the novella The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, Twain offers an incisive ...

Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance, he ...

The Mark Twain Annual, Vol. 17, No. 1, Special issue: Mark Twain and Nature (2019), pp. 159-172 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.17.1.0159 • https://www ...

Conan O’Brien will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. O’Brien will be honored at the annual gala for the Mark Twain Prize on March 23 at the John F. Kennedy ...

Score one for Team Coco. Conan O'Brien has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He'll receive the award on March 23, less than three weeks after he hosts ...