Mark Twain, known for his curmudgeonly wit and storytelling, is shown as a family man and loving father in "A Family Sketch," a never published tribute to a daughter who ...

Joined by several of his co-stars and collaborators, comedy legend Adam Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday at the Kennedy Center.

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. Skip to content. All ... where his glass of Diet Coke stood on a coaster illustrated with a sketch of Twain receiving an honorary ...

Author Samuel Longhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up along the Mississippi River and used ...

The 80-year-old entertainer, who has garnered laughs since she broke out on the scene in the 1960s, was honored with the 16th annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in the ...

What we get wrong about Mark Twain. ... It’s even doubtful that Twain would win for his early comic sketches and essays, which now often seem prolix, hokey or bathetically lame.

The 1,200-page “Mark Twain” will be published next week. ... where his glass of Diet Coke stood on a coaster illustrated with a sketch of Twain receiving an honorary college degree, ...

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s.