Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Kaplan, Justin frey50

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain A Biography Justin Kaplan - New York Simon and Schuster 1966 - 424 p.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1967

"A roving commission" -- "The tide of a great popular movement" -- "The fortune of my life" -- "I do not live backwards" -- "Little Sammy in fairy land" -- "A popular author's death rattle" -- "I did not know I was a lion" -- "Era of incredible rotteness" -- "Busiest white man in America" -- Spirits of '76 -- "The free air of Europe" -- "Everything a man could have" -- "Our great century" -- The yankee and the machine -- "Get me out of business!" -- "Never quite sane in the night" -- "Whited sepulchre."

"Although this biography of Mark Twain begins when Twain is 31 ... the book is a full account of Twain, his life and his work related both to his early years and to the 'Gilded Age' of his mature life."


Twain, Mark aka Clemens, Samuel 1835-1910 Biography


Authors, American--19th century--Biography

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