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 ...

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost 40 years ... Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The National Parks: America ...

Comedy Central hosted it before PBS. The 26th Mark Twain Prize will be produced by David Jammy and the team at Done+Dusted. "I am honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized ...