Monday, October 21, 2013

BOOKS - New Autobiography of Mark Twain

"Mark Twain is back!  Volume II of his autobiography just out" PBS Newshour 10/20/2013

Excerpt

HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour):  And now to an important literary development ...  The publication of Volume 2 of The Autobiography of Mark Twain.  The 700-page book is filled with the author's pictures and letters and thoughts he dictated to a stenographer.  Among the highlights:  Twain's recollections of a dinner with Helen Keller, whom he described as the "8th Wonder of the World."  Joining me now is Ben Griffin, the book's associate editor.

So the first volume of the autobiography of Mark Twain, it was in 2010.  It was a bestseller, and one reviewer wrote how strange, alluring, but less sure-footed Twain seemed.  What does the second volume reveal about Mark Twain?

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