Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...

Conan O'Brien is the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' 26th Mark Twain Prize for American ...

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

By noon Sunday, regional actor Kelley Elder was already applying makeup to his face inside one of the dressing rooms at ...

Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...

Regional actor Kelley Elder from Evansville talks about his one-person show "Mark Twain Here!" — where Elder portrays the ...

The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to ...

Conan O'Brien, late-night show host, comedian, and podcaster, is the winner of the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Wally Lamb clearly drew on his experience conducting prison workshops while writing 'The River Is Waiting,' a novel about a ...

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and ...