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Article: FROM SAM CLEMENS TO MARK TWAIN.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1997
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Byline: MICHAEL PEARSON
INVENTING MARK TWAIN
The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
ANDREW HOFFMAN
William Morrow. 572 pp. $30.
Samuel Clemens was a mythmaker, and perhaps his greatest creation was not the satirical A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the dark Pudd'nhead Wilson or the beloved Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but rather his other self - Mark Twain.
There have been a number of biographies of Mark Twain in the 87 years since his death, most notably Justin Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.