The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South
Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America’s “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan’s extraordinary
This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alte
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