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Deseret News on MSN.com · 10d

Deseret News archives: Remembering Mark Twain, who visited Utah in 1861

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and irreverent) outsider’s perspective on early Utah. Twain is impressed by the Mormon settlers’ industry, puzzled by their practice of polygamy, bored by their scripture and enthralled with their mountainous landscape.
Icon for www.theamericanconservative.comThe American Conservative · 25d

Mark Twain Evades the Wokeness Trap

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... his own elegance is when he describes Twain’s death in 1910: “He emitted a sigh and peacefully expired at age seventy-four, perhaps dreaming of being afloat ...
The Owensboro Times · 2d

Elder to brings Mark Twain to life in limited-run stage event presented by TWO

Theatre Workshop of Owensboro will present "Mark Twain Here!" — a one-man performance starring veteran actor Kelley Elder as the well-known American humorist — in a special three-day engagement May 2-4 at TWO's Trinity Centre.
Icon for www.smithsonianmag.comSmithsonian Magazine · Feb 24, 2023

Mark Twain in Love

Illustration by Jody Hewgill The encounter with Laura was eclipsed by tragedy when Mark Twain's younger brother, Henry, died at age 19 in a riverboat explosion on June 21, 1858. "The light of my ...
Sent-trib · 10d

April 21, Prince dead at age 57

On April 21, 2016, Prince, one of the most inventive and influential musicians of modern times, was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis from an accidental fentanyl overdose; he was 57.
Icon for www.smithsonianmag.comSmithsonian Magazine · 15d

Keeping Up with Mark Twain

One reason for the project’s ever-lengthening timetable is that Mark Twain won’t stop writing. His known output at the time of his death at age 74 was prodigious enough: nearly 30 books ...
The Columbian · 5d

Check It Out: Mark Twain left lasting legacy

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences occurred to the main characters.
Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Apr 2, 2025

From the archives: Val Kilmer as Mark Twain

died on April 1, 2025, at age 65. In this Sept. 22, 2013 "Sunday Morning" story, correspondent Bill Geist sat down with Kilmer, then playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show, "Citizen Twain ...
Icon for www.pbs.orgPBS · Sep 28, 2017

Lesson One: Mark Twain and Will Rogers — American Originals

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year of Haley's Comet, and vowed he would live to see the comet pass over again. Indeed, Twain died in 1910 ...
Icon for www.nationalgeographic.comNational Geographic news · Sep 25, 2012

Fountain of Youth

During his twilight years, American author Mark Twain noted that ... will do away with old age. Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the known world before he died around 323 B.C., may ...