Val Kilmer shared a heartbreaking tragedy with his hero, Mark Twain, which was a major factor in why he idolized the author.

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Mark Twain The collection includes 537 letters Twain wrote to his wife, Livy ... “It’s a kind of mock Horatio Alger story, set in the family of an undertaker. Twain brings the story down ...

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... “Born into a slave-owning family, he transcended his southern roots to a remarkable degree, shaking off most, but never all, of his boyhood racism.

Pulitzer-winning biographer Ron Chernow will discuss his new biography of Mark Twain on June 10 at Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford.

The Mark Twain program in its 26th year followed the traditional format of testimonials from an array of comics embellished with video clips, while the recipient and his family watched from a near ...

Val Kilmer, Mark Twain fan and star of “Top Gun,” “Tombstone,” “the Doors,” “Batman Forever,” “Willow, “the Saint” and many more, has died at the age of 65.

But moving out of his comfort zone, O’Brien delivered what amounted to a bristling attack on the current administration artfully disguised as a tribute to Mark Twain. “Twain was suspicious of ...