Justin Kaplan is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and of Walt Whitman: A Life, which won the American Book Award. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, novelist Anne Bernay
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Kaplan's book will undoubtedly be the
portrait of Mark Twain for this generation.
Henry Nash Smith Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is sure to remain for a
long time the standard book about an extraordinary, complex
personality and a career that touched almost every aspect of
American culture in the later nineteenth century.
Howard Mumford Jones The richest, most subtle, and best-sustained
analysis of Mark Twain anywhere to be found....This is a great
book, one of the greatest analyses of an American personality.
John Kenneth Galbraith Even the best scholars, reading this book,
will find themselves dangerously close to unqualified praise....Not
only does Kaplan write economically and lucidly but he has a
beautiful ear for Mark Twain's language, invention, and comedy.
Maxwell Geismar Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is bold and discerning
in its treatment of the central conflicts of that primitive genius,
Mark Twain. It is illuminating to me in the discussion of complex
and puzzling aspects of a dark and doubled personality.
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