New executive director of Mark Twain House & Museum is a familiar face

New executive director of Mark Twain House & Museum is a familiar face

Jeffrey L. Nichols has been named as the new executive director of the Mark Twain House & Museum following a nationwide search that took over a year. Nichols succeeds Pieter Roos, who served as executive director from 2017 to 2023 and announced his retirement at the end of last year. Nichols, a Naugatuck native, has held the position before. He was the executive director of the Twain House from 2008 to 2012. When he recently returned to Connecti…

Vanity Fair Scribe Raises Trump Obsession with MARK TWAIN Biographer Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow is the author of a number of highly acclaimed biographies such as about Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant. His latest biography is about Mark Twain. In an interview with the lefty rag Vanity Fair, Chernow explained Twain's relationship with the rich:  Twain became this quintessential American writer, and he lived in a society that worships money and success, but as a child saw his father without money and without status, just g…