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Isabel Van Kleek Lyon worked as Mark Twain’s secretary. |
Grumpy old man
A revealing look at Twain’s last years of dark self-absorption
If journalism is the first draft of history, contemporary biography is often the final draft of “social history” — to use the term for gossip coined by poet Delmore Schwartz. And about Mark Twain, America’s first worldwide celebrity, much was whispered, particularly during the tumultuous last decade of his life, the period examined by Laura Skandera Trombley’s “Mark Twain’s Other ... (Full article: 902 words)
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