Mark Twain Tonight!, the trailblazing one-man show that Hal Holbrook created, and that he has continued to hone over the course of his long and distinguished career on stage and screen, earned him both a Tony and Emmy Award. Marking the centenary of Twain's death almost to the day, Holbrook's performance at Stanford comes at the culmination of courses in Stanford's Departments of English, American Studies, and Continuing Studies, spearheaded by Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, preeminent Twain scholar and the Director of American Studies at Stanford.