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One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year, Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain covers all aspects of the life of the most famous American writer of his time. The book, released on March ...

Discover who Mark Twain was. Check his biography, real name, famous books, quotes, visit to India, life tragedies, and ...

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1924. 8vo. 2 vols. $10.00. THOSE who read the considerable portions of Mark Twain’s Autobiography published in the North American Review a number of years ago will look ...

To commemorate the 100-year anni­versary of Mark Twain's death, a crack team of editors at the massive Mark Twain Project at the University of California-Berkeley, headed by Harriet Elinor Smith, has ...

"Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1," Mark Twain, University of California Press, 740 pages. Comic, showman and savvy sage. No, not Jon Stewart. We're talking ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN (388 pp.)—Edited by Charles Neider—Harper ($6). “I am not alive. I am dead,” wrote Mark Twain. “I wish to keep that fact plainly before the readers. If I were alive I ...

100 years after his death, Mark Twain's autobiography was published the way Twain himself wished. Fresh Air's David Bianculli talks with Robert... On Publishing Mark Twain's Autobiography In 1904, ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules ...