Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Five (1907-1909)

Mark Twain was seventy-one years old in 1907, and the New York Times still couldn't stop writing about him. This collection gathers contemporary newspaper coverage from 1907-1909:Profiles of the aging literary lion, reports on his public lectures, his letters to the editor on matters of the day, and even a few short stories he published during these years. What emerges is a portrait of Twain in his final active decade, still fighting for civil rights, still skewering hypocrisy, still the most famous American writer in the world. These aren't the carefully curated memoirs he'll later dictate to his secretary; they're the raw, immediate dispatches of a man living his last years in real time. For anyone who's ever wanted to see how Twain's contemporaries saw him, this newspaper archive offers something precious: the world reacting to a legend while he was still in it.