The complete online text of My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

EMERSON, EVERETT. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 344 pp. $34.95. Everett Emerson's literary biography of Twain, first of all, is a refreshing "read." Emerson's language clarifies rather than obscures his subject, and his general tone reflects...

Mark Twain. By Larzer Ziff. Lives and Legacies. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. [viii ], 126. $17.95, ISBN 0-19-517019-9.) Larzer Ziff's book on Mark Twain appears in a series entitled Lives and Legacies. Other books in the series...