Mark Twain's Autobiography

Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, Mark Twain’s Autobiography is a two-volume set published over ten years after Twain's death in order to protect the "guilty". It was well received, as the public was hungry for some new books by Mark Twain. While Twain's autobiography was not published until after his death, "Chapters from my Autobiography" by Mark Twain were published in a serial format in 25 issues of the North American Review (v. 183-... more

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He...

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