Some Articles About Mark Twain

These four magazine articles, published in 1888, capture Mark Twain at the height of his transatlantic fame through the eyes of a contemporary biographer. Sarah Knowles Bolton, writing with unprecedented access to her subject, paints an intimate portrait of Samuel Langhorne Clemens the man alongside Mark Twain the literary legend. "Mark Twain At Home" reveals the private world of the humorist, while "Youth of Mark Twain" traces the formation of the voice that would redefine American literature. Bolton's biographical journalism offers something rare: a Victorian-era portrait of the most famous American writer of his day, written while he was still very much alive and performing his public persona. These pieces illuminate how late nineteenth-century readers understood the man behind the Mississippi tall tales.