A century after Mark Twain's death, new books continue to be released about his life and works. Among the latest:
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Library of America, 492 pp., $35). Old and new essays from a wide range of admirers, including Toni Morrison, Jorge Luis Borges and Erica Jong.
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris Jr. (Simon and Schuster, 304 pp., $26). How Clemens went west in 1861 searching for silver and found a new calling as a writer.
Mark Twain: Man in White by Michael Shelden (Random House, 484 pp., $30). A retelling of Twain's final years, filled with sorrow (the deaths of his wife and a daughter), adulation and fame.
Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years by Laura Trombley (Knopf, 332 pp., $28.95). The story of Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, Twain's confidante and personal assistant in the last years of his life.
Source: USA Today
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