Editor’s Re:Marks (Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual)
Ben Click, editor of the Mark Twain Annual, shares his introduction to the 2020 issue, which includes a survey of its contents.
Ben Click, editor of the Mark Twain Annual, shares his introduction to the 2020 issue, which includes a survey of its contents.
In “A True Story,” written at Quarry Farm in 1874, Mark Twain frankly acknowledges his ignorance of black experience. Larry Howe discusses how Twain uses the story to check his own privilege and amplify the voice of a black woman, Mary Ann Cord.