Given the realities of sheltering in place, audiobooks offer an alternative way to access books. UC Press has several titles available in audiobook including Mark Twain’s autobiographies, a lucid text that is …
Read More >by Kathryn Mills, coeditor of C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings If my father, C. Wright Mills, were alive today he’d be celebrating his 100th birthday. He was born on August 28, …
Read More >The delightful story below is from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3, and it captures so many aspects of Mark Twain’s personality, including his love of animals and his ability to …
Read More >Mark Twain had a lifelong fascination with technology. He was eager to investigate—and invest in—new technologies of his time, from the early typewriter to the telephone. He also was an inventor himself, …
Read More >Have you ever wondered what someone else was thinking about at a certain point in time? Thanks to Mark Twain’s dictation style for his extraordinary Autobiography, we know that on this day in …
Read More >By Harriet E. Smith, Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project Photograph by William Vander Weyde, 21 September 1906. Most images we have of Mark Twain from 1906 show him …
Read More >Mark Twain liked to entertain and be entertained, but his 70th birthday party was truly an evening to be remembered. Thrown by Colonel George Harvey, the editor of Harper’s Weekly, at Delmonico’s …
Read More >By Harriet E. Smith, Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project Samuel L. Clemens, 1851 or 1852. Reproduced from a print in the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of …
Read More >Choosing a book’s cover image is always an exciting process, but it can also prove difficult, particularly when you have such a treasure trove of images to choose from, as we do …
Read More >To celebrate the completion of the Autobiography of Mark Twain (Volume 3 officially publishes today), we will be revisiting and exploring for the first time many of the …
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