Local students and teachers can win big cash prizes and rare access the historic Mark Twain Quarry Farm home. Here's how.

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Due to donations from two alumni, Elmira College will now offer two new opportunities for future ...

Adam Sandler has been named the recipient of the 24 th Mark Twain Award for American Humor, considered one of the most prestigious honors in comedy. According to the Kennedy Center, the Mark Twain ...

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of ...

Mark Twain's late-life philosophical work, 'What Is Man?'. His argument is clear: humans are machines. We are beings that ...

The humorist and satirist was a fountain of quotable sayings and quite a few of them were about man’s best friend whom he held in higher esteem than humans. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry ...

Comedian, actor, writer and entrepreneur Kevin Hart is the winner of the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Considered the highest honor in funny business, previous recipients have included ...

The fourth annual Mark Twain Days festival returns to Carson City Oct. 13-17 with five days of literary events, live music, ...

Inspired by Mark Twain's love for the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a writer explores the university's enduring legacy.

In a scene from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel, “The Gilded Age,” a hard-up, Pollyannaish type named Colonel Beriah Sellers launches into a blustering sales pitch. He’s concocted a little something he calls ...