Then pick up your pencil or fire up your computer. The contest to finish an unpublished short story Twain wrote 125 years ago has begun -- and it's already bringing international attention to ...

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sits in his writing chair and appears to be concentrating intently. Twain’s Letters from the Earth was published after his death and was not approved by his estate until ...

Back in March, a group of comic luminaries — from John Mulaney to Nikki Glaser — gathered at the Kennedy Center to celebrate O'Brien for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. This is ...

It was a night of silliness, scatological humor, cutting political satire and poignancy as Conan O'Brien received the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Among those celebrating O'Brien were his ...

In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain published ...