Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, this book examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of Mark

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William

This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange

In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seem

"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and corresp