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* Kaplan, Fred. The Singular Mark Twain.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 2003. 500p. index. Doubleday, $35 (0-385-47715-5). 818.
Kaplan begins his biographical assault on received wisdom about America's most famous novelist with the wordplay implicit in his title: Mark Twain was not only a singular writer (uniquely gifted and unsurpassed in his influence), but he was also a singular personality (not multiple or divided), his pen name signifying no deep psychic split of the sort critics have posited. Real contradictions do emerge in the life of a man who could, for instance, ridicule religion as foolish superstition and yet jump at the chance to publish the pope's authorized biography. But in these contradictions, Kaplan sees no more than the inconsistencies typical of a sophisticated mind, not deep fissures ...
- Mark Twain: A Literary Life.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly WONHAM, HENRY B. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...s The Man Who Was Mark Twain (1991). Emerson...to challenge Justin Kaplan's 1966 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain as the premier study...investment in the figure of Mark Twain, nor does he produce...encourage modification of Kaplan's leading theses...
- FROM SAM CLEMENS TO MARK TWAIN.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot March 23, 1997 700+ words
...number of biographies of Mark Twain in the 87 years since...most notably Justin Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), the winner...complexity and mystery. Kaplan opened his biography with Mark Twain in his early 30s, on...
- Mark Twain Speaks for Himself
- Magazine article from: Style Williamson, Richard June 22, 1998 700+ words
...of his greatest creation, Mark Twain. In assembling various so...Bigelow Paine's three-volume Mark Twain: A Biography, the Personal...Clemens (1912), Justin Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography (1966), Edgar...
- The Mark Twain House To Sponsor 'Never An Uninteresting Life' Symposium.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 27, 2002 700+ words
...in biography, The Mark Twain House will sponsor...biographers Justin Kaplan (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain), William McFeely...keynote address from Kaplan followed by two panels...for members of The Mark Twain House; and $10 for...
- Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910.
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Gribben, Alan September 22, 1993 700+ words
...the biographies of Mark Twain produced by Justin Kaplan and Hamlin Hill, themselves...dismissive portrayal in Mark Twain: God's Fool (1973...same holds true for Kaplan, for that matter...his Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography [1966...
- Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly WITSCHI, NICOLAS March 22, 2000 700+ words
Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews...begin with Jason Horn's Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to...as Paine, De Voto, and Kaplan share equal space with more...each of the five volumes of Mark Twain's Letters thus far published...
- Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him.
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly Gribben, Alan September 22, 1993 700+ words
...the biographies of Mark Twain produced by Justin Kaplan and Hamlin Hill, themselves...dismissive portrayal in Mark Twain: God's Fool (1973...same holds true for Kaplan, for that matter...his Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography [1966...
- Mark Twain.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly WITSCHI, NICOLAS March 22, 2000 700+ words
Mark Twain, by Peter Messent. New...begin with Jason Horn's Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to...as Paine, De Voto, and Kaplan share equal space with more...each of the five volumes of Mark Twain's Letters thus far published...