The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark ...

In 2013 performances of “Citizen Twain” at Chaffey High, Kilmer was “majestic,” teacher tells columnist David Allen, but ...

Comedian and former late-night host Conan O'Brien takes home the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, amid the Kennedy Center's revamp.

Long Beach became a second home for Cambodians in the early 1980s – when hundreds of thousands of refugees flocked to the ...

In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute. By Jason Zinoman Jason Zinoman watched the ceremony at the ...

Helen Plum Memorial Library in Lombard presents “Catch The Twain: The Musical” on Monday, April 21. “Mark and I have been ...

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor event at the Kennedy Center comes after President Donald Trump removed the Kennedy Center's leadership in February.

Among those paying tribute to the comedian at Sunday night's event in Washington, D.C., were Adam Sandler, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman and a dozen Mark Twain impersonators. By The Associated ...

After the lights went down in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on March 23 to signal the beginning of the Mark Twain Prize ceremony, an announcer on the PA system explained that the Kennedy Center ...

Conan O’Brien is speaking out about his decision to attend the Kennedy Center’s March 23 event to accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor after President Donald Trump’s election to the board.

Talk show veteran Conan O’Brien was feted with the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Sunday in a lively production that blended accolades from numerous colleagues with ...