About the Author

LAWRRENCE I. BERKOVE, this volume's editor, is a professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and a noted authority on Mark Twain. He has published groundbreaking essays on Twain's major novels, short fiction, travel literature, and religious values.

PETE HAMILL, this volume's introducer, is a journalist, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, and the author of A Drinking Life- A Memoir and Why Sinatra Matters. His ten novels include Snow in August and Forever. He lives in New York City.

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