Cindy Lovell

Cindy Lovell is the executive director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri and associate professor of education at Quincy University. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from Stetson University and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. A consumate hooky player who fell in love with Tom Sawyer in the fourth grade, Lovell later dropped out of high school. She has published two children's novels, Rachel Mason Hears the Sound and Not This Sunday and is a contributing editor for the Mensa Research Journal. She is writing All Things Twain, a two-volume encyclopedia, for ABC-CLIO and recently co-authored Down the Mississippi: A Modern-day Huck on America’s River Road with CNN iReporter Neal Moore (July 2012). Lovell wrote and co-produced with Grammy Award-winner Carl Jackson "Mark Twain Words & Music," a double-CD telling Twain's life in spoken word and song, featuring Jimmy Buffett, Garrison Keillor, Clint Eastwood, Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, The Church Sisters, Angela Lovell, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Email Cindy

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