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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1904, Mark Twain wrote that he had "hit upon the right way to do an Autobiography." What he had discovered, says historian Robert Hirst, was the art of dictation. Instead of writing down his ...

Although Mark Twain wrote a handful of justly celebrated classics, including “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” which has a claim as the great American novel, his ouvre includes plenty of ...

Mark Twain's dying wish has finally been granted: His lengthy autobiography is set to be published on the 100th anniversary of his death. The first volume of Twain's 5,000-page manuscript, which has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a white suit, langorous gait and that legendary mustache, Mark Twain may have been mistaken for a genteel, grandfatherly figure. Wrong. More cantankerous and curmudgeonly, it seems. Liking his ...