Century-long wait for Mark Twain's autobiography is over
The University of California is publishing Mark Twain's memoirs, after the author requested that they be held by his estate until he was 'dead, unaware and indifferent'"It will be unparalleled in the...
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Stored under lock and key since his death 100 years ago, the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography will be published later this year by the University of California Press. The author had specified...
View ArticleMark Twain's autobiography: reports of his life greatly anticipated
The 100-year ban on publishing Mark Twain's memoirs ends, bringing to light childhood memories that inspired children's classics Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerThe schoolboy memories that inspired Mark...
View ArticleGranta finds a new global voice with the original Yankee, Mark Twain
An extract from Mark Twain's long-embargoed autobiography in Granta is a reminder that it is the preternaturally local that has international appealThese are hard times in which to publish a serious...
View ArticleMark Twain: not an American but the American | Sarah Churchwell
'All American literature comes from one book . . . called Huckleberry Finn,' Hemingway declared. The novel remains both one of the most beloved and most banned books in the US. As the first volume of...
View ArticleNight Waves: Comedy or Tragedy; Autobiography of Mark Twain; Boot Camp on a...
Tragedy and comedy slug it out – on Night Waves, in Mark Twain's life story, and on a boat ride to OrkneyNight Waves: Comedy or Tragedy | R3Autobiography of Mark Twain | R4Continue reading...
View ArticleThe Autobiography of Mark Twain – review
Mark Twain's century-old memoir offers an authentic glimpse into a brilliant mindThe idea of a memoir that flowed in a canal-straight course was never going to interest Samuel L Clemens, still less his...
View ArticleMark Twain on truth and fiction
He banned its publication until 100 years after his death. Now, the long wait to read Mark Twain's autobiography is over. So what does it reveal about the father of American literature?Mark Twain's...
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