Samuel Langhorne Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, was born Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, and spent his childhood in nearby Hannibal. Twain is best known for the novels set in his ...

Soon his humor was revealed through writing. He began a syndicated column ... Although born two generations apart, Mark Twain and Will Rogers each developed a style that was quintessentially ...

"All American writing comes from that," Hemingway ... I'll go to hell then"—the episode was the fusion of humor and pathos for which Mark Twain so often aimed and less often, in such perfection ...

Mark Twain is famous for writing countless books that changed the face of American ... But Twain’s work is largely viewed in ...

Kevin Hart got emotional when accepting one of comedy's highest honors: the Mark Twain Prize for humor. The 44-year-old ...