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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JUSTIN KAPLAN is the author of Lincoln Steffens and Walt Whitman: A Life, which won the American Book Award. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, novelist Anne Bernays.
In Constantinople, September 1867, on the Quaker City cruise
Olivia Langdon: “I saw her first in the form of an ivory miniature…in the summer of 1867, when she was in her twenty-second year”
Jervis Langdon’s wedding present to his son-in-law: 472 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo
In his sealskin winter outfit
In Washington, July 1870, photographed by Mathew Brady (detail)
“One of these spasms of humorous possession”: Mark Twain’s Franco-Prussian War “map,” inscribed by him to the Librarian of Congress
On tour, November 1869
Elisha Bliss’s prepublication advertising circular
Bret Harte
Orion Clemens, around 1880
William Dean Howells
Joseph H. Twichell
“Mr. Clemens seems to glory in his sense of possession,” said his wife: Opposite, 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, finished in 1874. The plans show the renovations and enlargements made in 1881
Family portrait: on the “Ombra” at 351 Farmington Avenue
Nearing 50, probably a private joke
“Twins of Genius”: with George Washington Cable, 1884
James W. Paige’s typesetting machine in its present home, the basement of Mark Twain’s house
The repaired illustration for page 283 of Huckleberry Finn
Susy Clemens at Bryn Mawr
General Ulysses S. Grant and his family at Mount McGregor, New York, 1885
In London, 1896-1897. Photographer’s proofs checked by Mark Twain
Henry Huttleston Rogers
With Livy, New York, 1900 or 1901
In Hannibal, May 1902, in front of the Clemens house on Hill Street: “It all seems so small to me. I suppose if I should come back here ten years from now it would be the size of a birdhouse.”
In Hannibal, May 1902
In New York, 1900: “The Hero as Man of Letters”
“The best game on earth”
Sketch by Cesare: Andrew Carnegie and Mark Twain at the Engineers’ Club Banquet, New York, 1907. Carnegie’s simplified spelling was “all right enough,” Mark Twain said in his speech, “but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.” Right, caricature self-portrait on copperplate: souvenir for the guests at Twain’s 67th birthday dinner, 1902
At 70
His last photograph: returning to New York from Bermuda, April 14, 1910
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