Who Is Mark Twain?

You had better shove this in the stove, Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, for I don’t want any absurd -literary remains’ and -unpublished letters of Mark Twain’ published after I am planted. He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Who Is Mark Twain presents twenty-six wickedly funny, disarmingly relevant pieces by the American master-a man who was well ahead of his time.