My Mark Twain
Author: first_name: William Dean
last_name: Howells
Language: English
Year: 1910

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> in Boston to thank Howell, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents Abroad. When Howells became editor a few years later, The Atlantic Monthly began serializing many of Twain's works, among them his non-fiction masterpiece, <i>Life on the Mississippi</i>.<br><br> In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that