Actor Richard Thomas will perform in "Mark Twain Tonight!" at TheaterWorks Hartford for a limited run in August.

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said that the actor drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "Mark Twain" (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George ...

Remembering the time when Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin told Stephen Colbert about their peyote trips—and why they'd happily guide him through his first time.

Re: “ Mark Twain’s words about patriotism can ease our injured pride ” (July 6, Northwest): Columnist Danny Westneat reflected well on Mark Twain’s wisdom that “ … true patriotism ...

Mark Ruffalo called out Joe Rogan over the conservative podcaster’s delayed response to the ICE raid targeting everyday undocumented migrant workers. “Dear @joerogan.

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green announced that he has resigned from Congress to take a mysterious new job — narrowing Republicans' already ultra-slim majority by one seat ahead of messy fights such as ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who remains a vital presence in American culture.

Writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, not only redefined American literature in the 1800s; he helped create the very idea of what it meant to be an American ...

Robert Hirst is curator of the Mark Twain Papers at UC Berkeley, where a small army of editors has been laboring for six years to reconstruct the autobiography just as Twain wished it to be.

Mark Snow, ‘The X-Files’ Theme Song Composer, Dies at 78 “There will never ever be another like you,” Snow’s friend, Sean Callery, wrote on Facebook.

Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher, the daughter of the local judge – came out in 1876. And ever since the ...