This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens
to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens
biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the
parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or
aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life
cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark
Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography
plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an
expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available,
what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a
couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has
located documents relevant to Clemens's life in Missouri, along the
Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been
presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life
of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of
his gifted imagination.
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