Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to Biographical Sources

Here is yet another of the biblio‐biographical studies for which Scarecrow has become well‐known. The compiler is an assistant professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia, and as well as having published several articles on Mark Twain and other contemporary American writers, he is the author of Mark Twain and William James: Crafting a Free Self, in which he explored Twain’s religious and philosophical backgrounds.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835, but the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri four years later. At the age of 12, while still at school, he was writing for...