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- Mark Twain demanded that his autobiography not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death because he feared that much of it was too incendiary.
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Jan 8, 2015 · At the time of his death in 1910, Mark Twain left behind an unedited 5,000-page manuscript of his autobiography with explicit instructions that the work not be made public for at least 100...
Twain started the composition of an autobiography in 1870, but proceeded intermittently, abandoning the work and resuming it sporadically, accumulating a total of 30-40 of these “false starts” over the subsequent 35 years.
Jun 29, 2011 · Blog. 100 Years Later, Mark Twain's Autobiography. June 29, 2011. Russell Wyland. Photo caption. Over the course of 35 years, Mark Twain tried repeatedly to create an autobiography. His method was decidedly not chronological, swerving from one topic to the next, one time period to the next.
May 24, 2010 · More than 100 years after the famed American author's death, Mark Twain's autobiography can finally hit bookstands. Twain died on May 23, 1910, leaving behind more than 5,000 pages detailing...
Oct 18, 2010 · October 18, 2010. Mark Twain completed his autobiography – which he called "a complete and purposed jumble" – more than a century ago. But he told his publishers that they would not be able...
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Jan 10, 2011 · Mark Twain demanded that his autobiography not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death because he feared that much of it was too incendiary. Now, exactly a century later, the first authoritative volume has arrived, after decades of painstaking scholarship involving tens of thousands of documents -- and after decades of NEH ...
Culture Books News. After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all. The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years...
