Mark Twain Remembered
An Anecdotal Biography
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
Mark Twain’s life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.
A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography, Gary Scharnhorst transcribes and annotates over two hundred memoirs by people who knew Twain personally—boyhood f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826369154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826369154 |
| Author: | Gary Scharnhorst |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 464g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“The number of anecdotes Scharnhorst has gathered is vast, providing new glimpses into the famed author’s inner world.” * Missouri Historical Review *
“With his latest contribution to the immense biographical record of Mark Twain’s life and career, Gary Scharnhorst engages in a bold new experiment: he has assembled a vast archive of personal reminiscences about the author by people who knew him during each of the key phases of his extraordinary life. The result is a collage of impressions that serves to contextualize and, in some cases, to complicate the mythological persona that Mark Twain himself promoted and that his official biographers have often perpetuated. Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography offers readers an intimate perspective on most of the major themes and events in the life of America’s premier literary celebrity. Samuel L. Clemens emerges through the eyes of his contemporaries as an even more interesting and complicated figure than we could have imagined.” – Henry B. Wonham, author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
Gary Scharnhorst
Gary Scharnhorst is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico; the author or editor of over fifty books, including award-winning biographies of Mark Twain and Owen Wister; the past president of the Western Literature Association; and the editor of the scholarly journal American Literary Realism.
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