The first actor authorized to perform “Mark Twain Tonight!” since Hal Holbrook, he presents the American writer and humorist as funny and snappy as ever.

He is the sixth Black comedian to receive the award; gala takes place on March 24, 2024. Comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Hart has just been announced as the 25th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for ...

Richard Thomas, known for his role as John-Boy Walton in “The Waltons,” will be playing prolific American writer Mark Twain in “Mark Twain Tonight” at the Robinson Center. Thomas highlighted some ...

(CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." But the story of how this book is finally coming to be published ...

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George ...

It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, “The yacht race! I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, ...