The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is a prize for comedians. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts awards this prize every year. They first gave this prize in 1998. It is named after Mark Twain. Mark Twain was an American author. The Mark Twain Prize is America’s foremost award for humor.
Mark Twain Prize winners
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| Novels |
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| Short stories |
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- "Cannibalism in the Cars"
- "General Washington's Negro Body-Servant"
- "My Late Senatorial Secretaryship"
- "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls"
- "A Literary Nightmare"
- "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage"
- "The Invalid's Story"
- "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn"
- "1601"
- "The Stolen White Elephant"
- "Luck"
- "The Million Pound Bank Note"
- "A Double Barrelled Detective Story"
- "Those Extraordinary Twins"
- "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
- "A Dog's Tale"
- "Extracts from Adam's Diary"
- "The War Prayer"
- "Eve's Diary"
- "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
- "My Platonic Sweetheart"
- "The Private Life of Adam and Eve"
- "Advice to Little Girls"
- "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine"
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| Collections |
- Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance
- Sketches New and Old
- A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime
- Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches
- Mark Twain's Library of Humor
- Merry Tales
- The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
- The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
- The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
- The Washoe Giant in San Francisco
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| Plays |
- Is He Dead?
- Colonel Sellers
- Colonel Sellers as a Scientist
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| Essays |
- "The Awful German Language"
- "On the Decay of the Art of Lying"
- "Advice to Youth"
- "English As She Is Taught"
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- "Concerning the Jews"
- "A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth"
- "To the Person Sitting in Darkness"
- "To My Missionary Critics"
- "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany"
- "What Is Man?"
- "Queen Victoria's Jubilee"
- "The United States of Lyncherdom"
- "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
- Letters from the Earth
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| Non-fiction |
- Territorial Enterprise letters
- Letters from Hawaii
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- Old Times on the Mississippi
- A Tramp Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Following the Equator
- Is Shakespeare Dead?
- Autobiography of Mark Twain (Chapters from My Autobiography)
- Mark Twain's Notebook
- King Leopold's Soliloquy
- The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
- Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire
- The Bible According to Mark Twain
- Christian Science
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| Speeches |
- "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"
- "Votes for Women"
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| Places and events |
- Family cabin
- Birthplace State Historic Site
- Boyhood home and museum
- Mark Twain Cave
- Mark Twain in Nevada
- Territorial Enterprise
- Sagebrush School
- Mark Twain House
- Stormfield
- Twain–Ament indemnities controversy
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| Popular culture |
- Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
- Mark Twain Tonight!
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
- Mark Twain: The Musical
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| Family |
- Olivia Langdon Clemens (wife)
- Susy Clemens (daughter)
- Clara Clemens (daughter)
- Jean Clemens (daughter)
- John M. Clemens (father)
- Orion Clemens (brother)
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