Preface Chronology Introduction: The Man and the Author A Heavenly Place for a Boy (1835-1847) From Printer to Pilot (1848-1861) Lighting Out for the Territory (1862-1869) The Gilded Years (1870-1889) Later Years (1890-1910) Appendix A: Clemens Family Tree Appendix B: Samuel Clemens's Reading Appendix D: Quotable Twain Appendix E: Books by Mark Twain Appendix F: Important Places and Holdings in Twain Studies Bibliography Index
A delightful read that pays tribute to Twain's sparkling wit and humor and reveals the fascinating story of how a mischievous lad became America's most provocative and beloved storyteller.
Connie Ann Kirk is an author and independent scholar who specializes in American literature, American cultural history, and children's literature. She is a Mark Twain Quarry Farm Research Fellow.
?[T]here are very few in-depth biographical coverages that reveal
Mark Twain's personal life. Biographer Connie Kirk uses established
Twain resources and adds new research and perspectives gleaned from
Twain's personal letters and her discussions with family members:
the result is an in-depth modern survey of Twain for new students
of his work.?-MBR Internet Bookwatch
?Kirk has very carefully tempered Twain's biography with just
enough literary criticism and modern scholarship to be informative
to high school readers without burdening them with the material
they may not be prepared to understand.?-Mark Twain Forum
?Kirk successfully navigates between those pitfalls to create a
short biography that is entertaining to read and still presents a
rather thorough picture of Twain. She accomplishes this with a
careful mixture of the sketchy and the detailed.?-Mark Twain
Forum
?When one considers the complexity of Twain, the volume and variety
of his writing, his many accomplishments, and his impact on
literature, the task of condensing his life is daunting, yet Connie
Ann Kirk has done so very effectively. Her biography of Twain is a
straightforward chronological narrative of his life presented in
six chapters starting with an introduction to the man and the
author.?-Mark Twain Forum
"ÝT¨here are very few in-depth biographical coverages that reveal
Mark Twain's personal life. Biographer Connie Kirk uses established
Twain resources and adds new research and perspectives gleaned from
Twain's personal letters and her discussions with family members:
the result is an in-depth modern survey of Twain for new students
of his work."-MBR Internet Bookwatch
"[T]here are very few in-depth biographical coverages that reveal
Mark Twain's personal life. Biographer Connie Kirk uses established
Twain resources and adds new research and perspectives gleaned from
Twain's personal letters and her discussions with family members:
the result is an in-depth modern survey of Twain for new students
of his work."-MBR Internet Bookwatch
"Kirk has very carefully tempered Twain's biography with just
enough literary criticism and modern scholarship to be informative
to high school readers without burdening them with the material
they may not be prepared to understand."-Mark Twain Forum
"Kirk successfully navigates between those pitfalls to create a
short biography that is entertaining to read and still presents a
rather thorough picture of Twain. She accomplishes this with a
careful mixture of the sketchy and the detailed."-Mark Twain
Forum
"When one considers the complexity of Twain, the volume and variety
of his writing, his many accomplishments, and his impact on
literature, the task of condensing his life is daunting, yet Connie
Ann Kirk has done so very effectively. Her biography of Twain is a
straightforward chronological narrative of his life presented in
six chapters starting with an introduction to the man and the
author."-Mark Twain Forum
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