Now, Kitty brings that voice home to Sarasota with the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the historic Crocker Church in Pioneer Park. Sponsored by the Mark Twain Society, it's part celebration, part ...

A lineup of leading performers, including Senator Al Franken, Jimmy Kimmel, Norm Macdonald, Steve Martin, John Mulaney, Bill Murray, Amy Schumer, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Eddie Vedder, Jimmie ...

Mark Twain’s legendary wit extended far beyond his novels, with a life packed full of bizarre inventions, daring adventures, and surprising personal quirks that even his fiction couldn’t capture.

Mark Twain and his family are buried in the Langdon family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY. The plot originally belonged to Twain’s father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, and contains 28 burials.

America sees itself in a young boy who learns—but not too much—and whose story ends with his eyes on an open horizon, a stretch of land claimed by the nation but not yet bound to it. That’s where, in ...

Much of Mark Twain Lake remains open including major boat launch facilities, campgrounds and high water boat launch ramps that permit boating at higher elevations. The lake office will be open 24 ...