The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Late in life Mark Twain gave up on writing his memoirs in order and began simply dictating them, wandering from subject to subject as memory led him. The result is a sprawling, candid, often very funny record of his boyhood in Missouri, his years on the river and out West, his triumphs and business disasters, and his blunt opinions on the people and politics of his day. He insisted that large parts stay unpublished until long after his death so he could speak freely about the living. Selections appeared in his lifetime, and fuller editions followed across the next hundred years. A free PDF and EPUB edition are available here.
About the Author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the banks of the Mississippi. Most of his fiction would later draw on that childhood, sometimes directly. He worked as a printer’s apprentice, then…
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