The Autobiography of Mark Twain | Essays and Criticism

  • Divining the Truth in Twain's Autobiography

    Poquette has a bachelor’s degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette proposes a model for divining the truth in Twain’s autobiography.

  • Personage

    In the following essay excerpt, Krauth examines the problems and complexities present in Twain’s autobiography, including its fragmented form, its merging of fact and fiction, and its telling by both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain.

  • Mark Twain and Collaborative Autobiography

    In the following essay, Kiskis examines Twain’s reliance on ‘‘collaborating’’—trying his work out on family and friends—in his creative process, especially in the creation of his autobiography.