num_pages: 592
description: This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.
language: English
title: Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
titlecomplete: Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
characters: Mark Twain
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Harper Perennial