Mark Twain's Autobiography

Autobiography of Mark Twain or Mark Twain’s Autobiography refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. The first volume of a three-volume edition of the complete text was published in November 2010, the 100th anniversary year of Twain’s death, edited by the The Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at University of... California, Berkeley and published by University of California Press. Vol.1 also contains an introduction and copious Explanatory Notes Twain himself had published 'Chapters from My Autobiography' in twenty-five installments in the North American Review in 1906-7.Since Twain's death in 1910, a number of different editors have made attempts to impose some order on the whole of the material by selection and reorganization, producing several decidedly different published versions of The Autobiography. The first of these was published in 1924 by Harper & Brothers Publishers.
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