Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the effort to edit and ...

Mark Twain’s 2010 Motherlode Festival featured a symposium of Twain scholars speaking to the freshly minted autobiography.

On the contrary, The Autobiography of Mark Twain —95 percent of which has been published elsewhere, most of it in three previous editions of the work—is tame, unfrank, and highly embarrassed.

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and other editors of the Mark Twain Project (University of California Press; 736 pages; $34.95) ...

In 1906, Mark Twain wrote to his friend and frequent correspondent, William Dean Howells, updating him on the progress of his autobiography: ...

Mark Twain spent the last decade of his life writing over 5,000 pages of memoir. He asked that none of it be published until 100 years after his death in 1910. This November, the University of ...

Harriet Smith talked by telephone about the book [Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1,] published 100 years after his death. She is one of the editors of the book at the Mark Twain Papers and ...

The new biography of Mark Twain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow covers all aspects of the life of the Hartford legend.

Book review: The great American writer Mark Twain specified that his autobiography not be released until 100 years after his death (in 1910). Now, in "Autobiography of Mark Twain," the first of ...

Mark Twain is surely America's best-known author. It is tempting to say he is also the country's favorite writer, but that can't be true. Too many grandparents have given too many copies of The ...

His Facebook page remains private, but 100 years after his death, the public will finally get to read all of Mark Twain’s scathing observations. He’s even getting his own blog. Known for his ...