"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."~Mark Twain
The Mark Twain Motherlode Festival in Angels Camp, Calaveras County, California, will be the first to offer and display the much anticipated autobiography of Mark Twain.
He published his first book in 1867 - "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Twain asked that the autobiography be suppressed and not published for 100 years following his death. The 737 page book is the is the result of the work of the Mark Twain Project conducted by UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library and University Press.
During the Twain Motherlode Festival several of the scholars and editors who worked on the project will take part in a symposium, and for the first time ever, the complete, authoritative and uncensored autobiography of Mark Twain.
The festival is scheduled for October 15-17th.
Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835,.he wrote under the pen name of Mark Twain until his death April 21, 1910. Several of his manuscripts were published posthumously.
The book will be released November 15 and is available for pre-order at Amazon.
~Linda
1 comment:
I will keep my eye out for this festival next year - it sounds very interesting.
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