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FROM SAM CLEMENS TO MARK TWAIN.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19970323
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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 ...

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