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the University of California Press and the historical introduction, notes, and annotations are an unusually rich resource of accurate and pertinent information about Twain and his writing. Readers with a specialized interest in Twain scholarship will find these volumes especially rewarding. The items listed below were selected as particularly appropriate for a general audience.

REFERENCE
    Camfield, Gregg, The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain (New York, 2003)
    LeMaster, J. R., and James D. Wilson, eds., The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (New York, 1993)
    Long, E. Hudson, and J. R. LeMaster, The New Mark Twain Handbook (New York, 1985)
    Rasmussen, R. Kent, Mark Twain A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings (New York, 1995)
    Tenney, Thomas Asa, Mark Twain: A Reference Guide (Boston, 1977). Annual supplements to this reference guide have been published in American Literary Realism (1977-1983) and the Mark Twain Circular (1984-present)

EDITIONS
    Baetzhold, Howard G., and Joseph B. McCullough, eds., The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood (New York, 1996)
    Budd, Louis J., ed., Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, 2 vols. (New York, 1992)
    Fatout, Paul, ed., Mark Twain Speaking (Iowa City, Iowa, 1976)
    Kiskis, Michael, ed., Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography (Madison, Wis., 1990)
    Zwick, Jim, ed., Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War (Syracuse, N.Y., 1992)

BIOGRAPHY
    Andrews, Kenneth R., Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle (Cambridge, Mass., 1950)
    Baetzhold, Howard G., Mark Twain and John Bull: The British Connection (Bloomington, Ind., 1970)
    Fatout, Paul, Mark Twain on the Lecture Circuit (Bloomington, Ind., 1960)
    Dolmetsch, Carl, “Our Famous Guest”: Mark Twain in Vienna (Athens, Ga. 1992)
    Emerson, Everett, Mark Twain, a Literary Life (Philadelphia, 2000)
    Ferguson, Delancey, Mark Twain: Man and Legend (New York, 1943)
    Harris, Susan K., The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (New York, 1996)
    Hill, Hamlin, Mark Twain: God’s Fool (New York, 1973)
    Kaplan, Fred, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography (New York, 2003)
    Kaplan, Justin, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, a Biography (New York, 1966)
    Meltzer, Milton, Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography (Columbia, Mo., 2002)
    Paine, Albert Bigelow, Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 vols. (New York, 1912)
    Powers, Ron, Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain (New York, 1999)
    Skandera-Trombley, Laura, Mark Twain in the Company of Women (Philadelphia, 1994)
    Steinbrink, Jeffrey, Getting to Be Mark Twain (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991)
    Ward, Geoffrey C., and Dayton Duncan, with a preface by Ken Burns, Mark Twain (New York, 2001)
    Wecter, Dixon, Sam Clemens of Hannibal (Boston, 1952)

CRITICISM
    Bellamy, Gladys, Mark Twain as a Literary Artist (Norman, Okla., 1950)
    Branch, Edgard M., The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain (Urbana, Ill., 1950)
    Bridgman, Richard, Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1987)
    Budd, Louis J., Mark Twain: Social Philosopher, rev. ed. (Columbia, Mo., 2001)
    â€”——, Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality (Philadelphia, 1983)
    Covici, Pascal, Jr., Mark Twain’s Humor: The Image of a World (Dallas, Tex., 1962)
    Cox, James M., Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor (Columbia, Mo., 2002)
    DeVoto, Bernard, Mark Twain’s America (Boston, 1932)
    Gerber, John, Mark Twain (New York, 1988)
    Gibson, William M., The Art of Mark Twain (New York, 1976)
    Gillman, Susan, Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain’s America (Chicago, 1980)
    Howells, William Dean, My Mark Twain (New York, 1910)
    Krauth, Leland, Proper Mark Twain (Athens, Ga., 1999)
    Lynn, Kenneth S., Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor (Boston, 1970)
    Melton, Jeffrey Alan, Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 2002)
    Messent, Peter,