Mark Twain: A Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743249010)

"Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." --Los Angeles Times

A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture.

Author: Ron Powers
ISBN-10: 0743249011
ISBN-13: 9780743249010
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.10w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/23/2006 pg. 20
Entertainment Weekly 01/30/2009 pg. 101