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　　Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve

ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good

since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway

uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages,

Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise

not have been possible.” He was the most famous American of his

day, and remains in ours the most universally revered American

writer. Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and

Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark

Twain, American literature’s touchstone, its funniest and most

inventive figure.

This book pulls together material from a variety of published and

unpublished sources. It examines not merely his justly famous

novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries,

letters, and 275 illustrations and photographs from throughout his

life. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s boyhood

in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker—when he

adopted the sobriquet “Mark Twain”—to his varied careers as a

newspaperman, printer, and author. They follow him from the home he

built in Hartford, Connecticut, to his peripatetic travels across

Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. We see Twain grieve

over his favorite daughter’s death, and we see him writing and

noticing everything.

Twain believed that “The secret source of humor itself is not joy

but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” This paradox fueled his

hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly

serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron

Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and

frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this book provides a full

and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters.

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　　GEOFFREY C. WARD is the author of twelve books, including A

First-ClassTemperament, which won the 1989 National Book Critics

Circle Award and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of

American Historians. He has written or co-written many documentary

films, including The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz.

　　DAYTON DUNCAN is the author of five books, including Out West: An

American Journey and Lewis & Clark (with Ken Burns). He has

been a consultant on many of Ken Burns’s films, including Lewis

& Clark, and was also the co-writer and consulting producer of

the PBS series The West.

　　KEN BURNS, founder of Florentine Films, is a director, producer,

and writer who has been making documentaries for more than twenty

years. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series

in the history of American public television, and his work has won

numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards.

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