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Mark Twain in the West

 
 

Suggested reading and resources

The names of authors who are speakers at
Mark Twain in the West are indicated in bold type.


Salamo, Lin, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank, of the Mark Twain project, editors. Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004.

Cohen, Rachel. A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967. Random House, NY, 2004
David, Beverly R. Mark Twain and His Illustrators, I: 1869-1875. Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co, 1986.

Day, A. Grove (ed). Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii. New York: Appleton-Century, 1966. and/or Mark Twain in Hawaii, published by Honolulu Press.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections of Mark Twain and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Howells, William Dean. My Mark Twain. Originally published in 1910, newer reprints are available.

Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain. Double Day, 2003

Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Lorch, Fred W. The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain's Lecture Tours. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1968.

Lyman, George D. The Saga of the Comstock Lode. Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, London, 1934

Paine, A. B. Mark Twain, a Biography. Harper & Bros.

Railton, Stephen. A Short Introduction to Mark Twain. Blackwells Publishing, 2003

Smith, Harriet Elinor and Edgar Marquess (eds.). Mark Twain's Roughing It. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, and
Twain, Mark. Roughing It (1891)– the Authoritative Text from the Mark Twain Project. UC Press, 1996. (paperback). Harriet Elinor Smith, Edgar Marquess Branch, editors. Associate editors: Robert Pack Browning and Lin Salamo

Taper, Bernard, ed. Mark Twain’s San Francisco. Heyday Books, San Francisco, 2003.

 
     
 
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