Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the effort to edit and publish ...

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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 ...

Mark Twain spent the last decade of his life writing over 5,000 pages of memoir. He asked that none of it be published until 100 years after his death in 1910. This November, the University of ...

The third and final volume of the autobiography of legendary American author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens — best known by his pen name Mark Twain — has been published by UC Press, courtesy of ...

Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith. Univ. of California, $45 (792p) ISBN 978-0-520-27994-0 This third and final volume of Twain's half-million-word autobiography begins ...

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 ...

Speaking at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in Liverpool, England, in the summer of 1907, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) compared himself to “the little skipper” of the Mary Ann. Exchanging greetings with the ...

Edited by Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith, and other editors of the Mark Twain Project. Univ. of California, $45 (776p) ISBN 978-0-520-27278-1 Several chapters into this sprawling volume, Mark ...

The cover of Mark Twain's Autobiography has been unveiled by Fantagraphics Books. Michael Kupperman's book tells the story of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer author's life between 1910 and 2010. What to ...

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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 ...