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Post by marianne48 on Dec 28, 2021 16:47:56 GMT
My New Year's resolution: Start reading his works. But I'm also looking for a good biography (besides his own autobiography). Any recommendations from the experts on thus board? Thanks.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 29, 2021 23:39:02 GMT
I'm not a expert, nor have I read it, but I've heard good things about biographer Justin Kaplan's writings on Mark Twain. I read he was a fan of Hal Holbrook's stage show in which he played Mark Twain.
'Justin Kaplan's first book 'Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain' (1966) was a critical success, winning both the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A stylish account of the Missouri-born humorist who attempted imperfectly to fit in with the Eastern elite, it was immediately praised as a landmark in Twain scholarship, making fans of E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe et al. and becoming a standard biography. It “employed an organizing device, unusual for its day, to which Mr. Kaplan would return. Instead of arranging his subject’s life chronologically, he portrayed it out of sequence, opening the book with Twain at 31.”
- Wikipedia
Justin Kaplan
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