Conan O’Brien received the prestigious Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American ... Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter praised Conan’s unique blend of “smart, silly, insightful ...

Conan O’Brien pointedly thanked David Rubenstein and Deborah Rutter — the former chairman ... Trump’s takeover — while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that month.

Conan O’Brien received this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ... from the audience when he thanked ousted president Deborah Rutter and ousted board chairman David Rubenstein by ...

O’Brien was honored with the 26th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ... and "the people who invited me here several months ago, David Rubenstein and Deborah Rutter [former Kennedy Center ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Biographer Ron Chernow was evidently short on time ...

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. – In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to step into the world of the beloved American storyteller.

I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is essentially the same length as “War and Peace,” but seemingly nothing has been overlooked or left out.