The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works

Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Various authors
Twain Matters: A Sampler

David Ross Locke
from New Books (1869)

Mark Twain
Memoranda: An Entertaining Article (1870)

Thérèse Bentzon
from Les Humoristes Américains: Mark Twain (The American Humorists: Mark Twain) (1872)

Eduard Engel
from Mark Twain: Ein Amerikanischer “Humorist” (Mark Twain: An American “Humorist”) (1880)
from Mark Twain (1897)

Lafcadio Hearn
Mark Twain on the Mississippi (1883)

José Martí
from Escenas Norteamericanas (North American Scenes) (1884, 1890)

Henry Gauthier-Villars
from Mark Twain (1884)

Hamlin Garland
Mark Twain’s Latest (1890)

Rudyard Kipling
An Interview with Mark Twain (1890)

Andrew Lang
On the Art of Mark Twain (1891)

Theodor Herzl
from Mark Twain in Paris (1894)

William Dean Howells
Mark Twain: An Inquiry (1901)

Ángel Guerra
from Prólogo: Mark Twain, Cuentos Escogidos ( Prologue to Mark Twain: Selected Tales) (1903)

Livia Bruni
from L’Umorismo Americano: Mark Twain” (American Humor: Mark Twain) (1905)

George Bernard Shaw
Letter to Samuel L. Clemens (1907)

Marina Tsvetaeva
Books Bound in Red (1910)

Johannes V. Jensen
Mark Twain (1910)

George Ade
Mark Twain as Our Emissary (1910)

G. K. Chesterton
Mark Twain (1910)

Jesús Castellanos
from Mark Twain (1910)

George Soule
Mark Twain Protests (1916)

H. L. Mencken
from Mark Twain (1919)

Maks Erik
from Sholem Aleichem and Mark Twain: Notes on the Eighth Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem’s Death (1924)

Helen Keller
Our Mark Twain (1929)

Lu Xun
from A Short Introduction to “Eve’s Diary” (1931)

Jorge Luis Borges
Una Vindicación de Mark Twain (A Vindication of Mark Twain) (1935)

Theodore Dreiser
Mark the Double Twain (1935)

Sterling Brown
from The Negro in American Fiction (1937)

Grant Wood
My Debt to Mark Twain (1937)

George Orwell
Mark Twain— the Licensed Jester (1943)

Bernard DeVoto
from Introduction to The Portable Mark Twain (1946)

Leslie Fiedler
Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey! (1948)

T. S. Eliot
Introduction to Huckleberry Finn (1950)

W. H. Auden
Huck and Oliver (1953)

Ralph Ellison
Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity (1953)

Wallace Stegner
Yarn-Spinner in the American Vein (1957)

Mike Gold
Twain in the Slums (1959)

Yan Bereznitsky
from Mark Twain on the Bed of Procrustes (1959)
from The Question Is Significantly More Profound: A Letter to Charles Neider (1960)

Lao She
from Mark Twain: Exposer of the “Dollar Empire” (1960)

Edward Field
Mark Twain and Sholem Aleichem (1963)

Abel Startsev
from Mark Twain in America (1963)

Kenzaburo Oe
From An American Traveler’s Dreams—Huckleberry Finn Who Goes to Hell (1966)

John Seelye
from The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970)

Robert Penn Warren
Last Laugh (1978)

Norman Mailer
Huck Finn, Alive at 100 (1984)

David Carkeet
from I Been There Before (1985)

Chuck Jones
from Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (1989)

David Bradley
Introduction to How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1996)

E. L. Doctorow
Introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1996)

Hal Holbrook
Introduction to Mark Twain’s Speeches (1996)

Erica Jong
Introduction to 1601 and Is Shakespeare Dead?: “Deliberate Lewdness” and the Lure of Immortality (1996)

Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction to The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Reading Young, Reading Old (1996)

Toni Morrison
Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996)

Gore Vidal
Introduction to Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays (1996)

Kurt Vonnegut
Some Comments on Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Kurt Vonnegut at the Age of Seventy-Two (1996)

Ralph Wiley
from What’s Up with Mad Mark Twain? (1996)

Dick Gregory
from Callus on My Soul (with Shelia P. Moss) (2000)

Ron Powers
What Hath Happened to “The War-Prayer”? (2006)

Michael Blakemore
Is He Alive? (2008)

Min Jin Lee
Money as an American Character and the Legacy of Permission: Or How Mark Twain Taught Me That It Was Okay to Talk About Money (2009)

Roy Blount Jr.
America’s Original Superstar (2008)

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