Cindy Lovell

Lovell has taught elementary school and has held tenured positions at Stetson University and Quincy University. She is the only person to have served as executive director for both the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri and the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. In Hannibal, Lovell oversaw the restoration of the Becky Thatcher House, established the quadrennial Clemens Conference, and facilitated numerous other projects. In Hartford, she oversaw the restoration of the famed mahogany suite guest quarters in the Clemens home, established the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award with trustee and author David Baldacci, and promoted the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act sales, which she worked to have enacted into law during her time in Hannibal. Currently, Lovell is the director of education at Epic Flight Academy in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She is an adjunct professor teaching education courses for the University of South Florida and a Mark Twain course for Quincy University. Lovell also served as events coordinator for the city of Hannibal during its bicentennial year in 2019 and is a member of the steering committee for the American Writers Museum.

Lovell made news around the world when she discovered the long-sought boyhood signature of Samuel Langhorne Clemens on July 26, 2019 inside the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri where Clemens lived from the age of 4 to 17. She had looked for the signature for decades and discovered it during a special tour with fellow Twain scholars during the quadrennial Clemens Conference hosted by the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. Lovell and cave owner Linda Coleberd did not announce the discovery until experts had the opportunity to examine it. The signature was authenticated as belonging to Samuel Clemens by Twain scholars Alan Gribben and Kevin Mac Donnell after comparing signatures of Sam Clemens and his siblings from the time period the Clemens family lived in Hannibal.

Lovell has been a contributor to HuffPost and other publications, such as Mensa Research Journal and Florida Reading Quarterly. She contributed chapters to Reading in 2010: A Comprehensive Review of a Changing Field, Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings, and is a contributing editor and author of Preparing the Way: Teaching ELs in the PreK-12 Classroom. She also co-authored Linguistics for K-12 Classroom Application with Jane Govoni. Lovell has also authored two children's novel, Rachel Mason Hears the Sound and Not This Sunday. She co-authored Down the Mississippi with CNN iReporter Neal Moore.

Cindy Lovell (born 1956) is an American educator and writer.

Lovell wrote the narrative tracks and served as co-executive producer with Carl Jackson of Mark Twain: Words & Music, a double album benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. Her narratives were performed by Jimmy Buffett, Clint Eastwood, Garrison Keillor, and Angela Lovell. Brad Paisley, Emmylou Harris, and others recorded the musical tracks. She also wrote the narrative tracks for Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited, another double album project with Jackson, which was a benefit for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Tennessee. Lovell's narrative tracks were performed by Eddie Stubbs. Singers on the project included Dolly Parton, Keb' Mo', Marty Stuart, and others.