In the grainy black-and-white photograph from 1903, Mark Twain sits on the steps of a vine-covered porch in Elmira, his white hair unkempt and his face paused in thought. Seated next to him is John T.

The Grolier Club will explore the singular wit of American literary legend Mark Twain in the new exhibition A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor.

REDDING -- In 36 years, the annual Mark Twain Library Art Show and Sale has become well respected in the art community. Artists from around New England submit works to the juried show.

We lost the talented, quirky actress Diane Keaton, who filmed three of her last movies in Connecticut, Oct. 11. Keaton ...

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“Rare food for a lunatic” ... “a thing that happens once in a million years” ... “Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead.” That’s a sampler of the praise that was heaped on ...

Roughly 160 years ago, a young man with a talent for words left his mark on Carson City and western Nevada before becoming one of America’s preeminent writers. “Like any good journalist, Sam Clemens, ...

IT IS inevitable that a man who was as eminent in life and letters as Mark Twain should be much written about. We have had Mr. Howells s hasty but wholly charming reminiscences of him, and Mr. Paine’s ...

Mark Twain is coming to dinner March 10 at Downtown Joe’s in Napa. In a dinner lecture, Twain will recount his visits to Napa in 1865, tell stories from his time in the West, and read from his ...