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Robert Hirst, director of the Mark Twain Project, was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air on December 1. In the interview, Hirst shares some little-known pieces from the Autobiography, including a gem of a story in which Mark Twain meets and converses with Helen Keller. He also articulates why this version of the Autobiography is different [more...]  “In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind that I am speaking from the grave….I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue, for good reason: I can speak thence freely”, Mark Twain writes in the preface to his autobiography. He spent his last years writing his life and times, but left instructions that [more...] |
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