Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

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When Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind half a million words of autobiographical writing. The question of how to organize this wealth of material continues to bedevil editors. But there is one text, published under Twain's supervision, that can be considered authentic. "CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY" were published in the North American Review in 1906-07 and contain a unified account of Twain's life in his own unmistakeable voice. More than just a story of a literary career, it reveals his family life and rambunctious boyhood.MARK TWAIN'S OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY stands as the last of his great yarns. Here he tells his own story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and revenges.

Genres biographynonfictionhumorclassicsautobiographymemoirliteratureaudiobookhistoryamerican

301 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1907

Series

Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography

This edition

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 1, 1990 by University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299125400
ASIN: 0299125408
Language: English

About the author

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.