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Title Twain in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Gary Scharnhorst
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 348 pages)
Series Writers in their own time
Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
Contents Chronology -- "Mark Twain's boyhood : an interview with Mrs. Jane Clemens" (1885) / Anonymous -- "Mark Twain's childhood sweetheart recalls their romance" (1918) / [Laura Frazier] -- Mark Twain as a cub pilot : a talk with Captain Horace Bixby" (1899) / Homer Bassford -- "Mark Twain" (1878) / Grant Marsh -- "Fitch recalls Mark Twain in bonanza times" (1919) / Tom Fitch -- From As I remember them (1913) / C.C. Goodwin -- "Jos. Goodman's Memories of humorist's early days" (1910) / [Joseph T. Goodman] -- "In the heroic days" (1893) / Arthur McEwen -- "Salad days of Mark Twain" (1893) / Dan De Quille -- From Archibald Henderson, Mark Twain (1910) / Dan De Quille -- "Memories of Mark Twain" (1915) / George E. Barnes -- "Fitch recalls Mark Twain in bonanza times" (1919) / Tom Fitch -- From Western carpetbagger : the extraordinary memoirs of "Senator" Tom Fitch (1978) / Tom Fitch -- "Mark Twain as he was known during his stay on the Pacific slope" (1887) / George E. Barnes -- From Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis (1924) / William R. Gillis -- "A morning with Bret Harte" (1894) / Henry J.W. Dam -- "Mark Twain as he was known during his stay on the Pacific slope" (1887) / George E. Barnes -- "Mark Twain incognito -- a reminiscence" (1926) / Franklin H. Austin -- "Mark Twain as he was known during his stay on the Pacific slope" (1887) / George E. Barnes -- "Fitch recalls Mark Twain in bonanza times" (1919) / Tom Fitch -- "Mark Twain as a lecturer" (1867) / Edward H. House -- "Mark Twain in California" (1898) / Noah Brooks -- "The cruise of the Quaker City" (1892) / Mary Mason Fairbanks -- "About Mark Twain" (1877) / Anonymous -- From Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada (1908) / William M. Stewart -- "Mark Twain in California" (1898) / Noah Brooks -- "Mark Twain" (1910) / J.N. Larned -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- "Mark Twain in London" (1872) / Moncure D. Conway -- From Autobiography (1904) / Moncure D. Conway -- "In old Bohemia" (1908) / Charles Warren Stoddard -- "Mark Twain -- an intimate portrait" (1910) / Henry Watterson -- From Crowding memories (1920) / Lilian Aldrich -- From Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships (1922) / Annie Adams Fields -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From Celebrities at home (1879) / Edmund Yates -- From The changing years (1930) / Norman Hapgood -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From Contemporary portraits. fourth series (1923) / Frank Harris -- "Mark Twain at 'Nook Farm' (Hartford) and Elmira" (1885) / Charles H. Clark -- From My father Mark Twain (1910) / Clara Clemens -- From Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1910) / Jervis Langdon -- From I remember (1934) / J. Henry Harper -- "Illustrating Huck Finn" (1930) / E.W. Kemble -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- "Mark Twain on the lecture platform" (1900) / Will M. Clemens -- From Arlin Turner, Mark Twain and George W. Cable : 'The record of a literary friendship' (1960) / George Washington Cable -- From Papa : an intimate biography of Mark Twain (1985) / Suzy Clemens -- From Recollections of a varied life (1910) / George Cary Eggleston -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From Opinions of a cheerful Yankee (1926) / Irving Bacheller -- "Memories of Mark Twain" (1920) / Brander Matthews -- From Hardly a man is now alive (1939) / Dan Beard -- From Memories of a southern woman of letters (1932) / Grace King -- "Mark Twain in Clubland" (1910) / William H. Rideing -- From Eccentricities of genius (1900) / James B. Pond -- "Mark Twain on the platform" (1896) / R.C.B. -- From A woman's part in a revolution (1897) / Natalie Hammond -- From Autobiography (1935) / John Hay Hammond -- From Seventy summers (1925) / Poultney Bigelow -- "Mark Twain as a newspaper reporter" (1910) / Frank Marshall White -- "Some reminiscences of Mark Twain" (1929) / James Ross Clemens, M.D. -- From Roadside meetings (1931) / Hamlin Garland -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From A lifetime with Mark Twain : the memories of Katy Leary (1925) / Mary Lawton -- From A roving commission (1930) / Winston Churchill -- From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (1920) / Andrew Carnegie -- From Roses and buckshot (1946) / James Montgomery Flagg -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From One afternoon with Mark Twain (1939) / George Ade -- From Companions on the trail : a literary chronicle (1931) / Hamlin Garland -- "Mark Twain : personal impressions" (1910) / Henry M. Alden -- From The changing years (1930) / Norman Hapgood -- "Mark Twain from an Italian point of view" (1904) / Raffaele Simboli -- "Mark Twain on friends and fighters" (1906) / Samuel P. Davis -- From Hardly a man is now alive (1939) / Dan Beard -- "Innocents at home" (1925) / Albert Bigelow Paine -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells -- From Mark Twain (1910) / Archibald Henderson -- From Uncle Joe Cannon (1927) / Joseph G. Cannon and L. White Busbey -- "Mark Twain's exclusive publisher tells what the humorist is paid" (1907) / James B. Morrow -- "Letters to the editor" (1944) / George Bernard Shaw -- "Mark Twain, some personal reminiscences" (1938) / Sir George Ian MacAlister -- "E. V. Lucas and Twain at a 'Punch dinner'" (1910) / E.V. Lucas -- "A little girl's Mark Twain" (1935) / Dorothy Quick -- From Mark Twain and the happy island (1914) / Elizabeth Wallace -- "Mark Twain lands an Angel fish" (1967) / Dorothy Sturgis Harding -- "Mark Twain at Stormfield" (1909) / Albert Bigelow Paine -- From Hardly a man is now alive (1939) / Dan Beard -- "Mark Twain" (1929) / Helen Keller -- "Mark Twain as his secretary at Stormfield remembers him" (1925) / Mary Louise Howden -- From My Mark Twain (1910) / W.D. Howells
Summary The ninety-four recollections gathered in Twain in His Own Time form an unsanitized, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the iconic author. Opening with an interview with his mother that has never been reprinted, it includes memoirs by his daughters and by men who knew him when he was roughing it in Nevada and California, an interview with the pilot who taught him to navigate the Mississippi River, reminiscences from his illustrators E.M. Kemble and Dan Beard and two of his so-called adolescent angelfish, contributions from politicians and from such lite
Notes Print version record
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast
Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Authors, American
Friendship
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Scharnhorst, Gary
ISBN 9781587299513
1587299518