Mcavoy layne biography

McAvoy Layne

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McAvoy Layne is “The Ghost of Mark Twain.” For twenty-seven years now, in over four thousand performances from Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City to Leningrad University in Russia, McAvoy Layne has been preeminent, in preserving the wit & wisdom of “The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope,” Mark Twain.

Says McAvoy, “It’s like being a Monday through Friday preacher, whose sermon, though not reverently pious, is fervently American.”

McAvoy is the ghost of Samuel Clemens in A&E’s biography of Mark Twain, and in the Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award winning documentary, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is a winner of the Nevada award for excellence in school and library service, and author of a soon to be published audiobook, One Life is Not Enough.

Lecture Series: "Mark Twain's Nevada Part 2" by McAvoy Layne

Samuel Clemens discovered his literary lodestone in Virginia City. McAvoy Lane brings that history to life as he returns to Piper’s Opera House for An Evening with Mark Twain in Nevada. Bio: McAvoy Layne Is the Ghost of Mark Twain For thirty years now, in over four thousand performances from Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City to Leningrad University in Russia, McAvoy has been preeminent in preserving the wit & wisdom of The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope, Mark Twain. McAvoy is a winner of the Nevada Award for Excellence in School and Library Service. He plays the ghost of Samuel Clemens in the Biography Channel’s episode of Mark Twain, and the Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award-winning documentary, ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ Says McAvoy, “It’s like being a Monday through Friday preacher, whose sermon, though not reverently pious, is fervently American. The Trouble begins at 7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm Tickets-Online $20 At the door $25 Box Seats – can sit up to four people and a bottle of wine – $1

In our newest interview, CWG Online Editor John Wright is pleased to welcome the one and only “Ghost of Mark Twain,” CWG Contributor McAvoy Lane!

McAvoy Layne


McAvoy Layne has been preeminent in preserving the wit & wisdom of “The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope,” Mark Twain. McAvoy is the ghost of Samuel Clemens in A&E’s biography of Mark Twain, and in the Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award winning documentary, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is a winner of the Nevada award for excellence in school and library service, and author of a soon to be published audiobook, One Life is Not Enough.

Welcome, Mac!

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

I hope that you have enjoyed this interview as much as I have, and I hope further that our Children’s Writers Guild Online readers will become fans of the Ghost of Mark Twain!

John Wright

John Wright is a Co-Founder of CWG and an architectural designer by profession; his other creative passions include poetry and songwriting. Learn more about John!

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