“I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot,” O'Brien joked in a statement. O’Brien, a Brookline, Massachusetts native ...

Illustration by Jody Hewgill The encounter with Laura was eclipsed by tragedy when Mark Twain's younger brother, Henry, died at age 19 in a riverboat explosion on June 21, 1858. "The light of my ...

The American Duchess, a luxurious river cruise paddle-wheeler, recently sailed past Osceola's Sans Souci Landing, evoking the ...

If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark ... a riverboat pilot. After 18 months of hard work, he earned his pilot's license. Altogether, Twain spent four ...