Title: Inventing Mark Twain : the lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens /
Authors: Hoffman, Andrew Jay.
Publisher: William Morrow and Co.,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Twain, Mark, Biography.; Authors, American Biography History and criticism.; Biography as a literary form; Autobiography
Abstract: Meticulously researched and brilliantly realized, Inventing Mark Twain is a major new biography of America's most famous literary figure. Hoffman traces Clemens' origins in the frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri, revealing the unexpected importance of events in Clemens' childhood.
Contents: Inventing Sam Clemens. -Becoming Tom Sawyer. -Seeing with Huck Finn's eyes. -Life on the Mississippi. -At home, on stage. -To England. -Hiding out in Europe. -Writing Huck Finn. -The Connecticut Yankee. -A respite for the bankrupt. -Livy.