There are many -- very many -- Mark Twain Awards that recognize different aspects of his career. The Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor just has the best publicity. Here are some that are easily findable on the web: Mark Twain Award, Missouri Association of School Librarians http://www.maslonline.org/awards/books/MarkTwain/ Mark Twain Masonic Awareness Award http://www.msana.com/twainaward/ Mark Twain Award for Travel Journalism (Heidelberg Club International) http://www.euro-journey.com/modules/eurojourney/item.php?itemid=1 Mark Twain Award for (TV) Station Excellence http://www.cptv.org/local/special/Programming_Award.asp Mark Twain Award (Connecticut Journalism) http://www.positivelyct.com/twainaward.htm There are similar Mark Twain Awards for print and television journalism in California. Mark Twain Award (Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature) http://www.ssml.org/symposium/awards.html Here are a couple of related items that don't seem to be on the web but that I saved news clippings about as they were happening: On July 4, 1998, the Philippine Star newspaper in Manila ran an editorial in which it quoted "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" and proposed that Mark Twain should be honored with "a fitting monument that could serve as the focal point of every annual Fil-American Friendship Day commemoration." (July 4 is celebrated as Filipino American Friendship Day in the Philippines.) During the April 3, 2000, opening of the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Square in Havana, it was announced that it would include a monument honoring Mark Twain. (Can anyone confirm that it was actually done?) There is already a statue of Jose Marti in New York's Central Park. Maybe we should get that area renamed the Mark Twain Anti-Imperialist Square. Imagine the outcry that would provoke! :-) Jim Zwick