Read some pretty interesting news yesterday. I guess that during his lifetime, Mark Twain wrote a giant mass of an autobiography… something like 5,000 pages. He instructed that they be sealed in a box for 100 years following his death and then released to the public. It’s crazy to me that they’ve been sitting there since 1910. Wild, right?
People kind of think that the reason that he had them sealed that long was to avoid scandal- so he could talk openly about his friends and family, about politics, about religion, about whatever he wanted without fearing any repercussions for himself or his decedents.
I think he probably just wanted to be difficult…. or do some National Treasure style stuff.
I hope that there’s some crazy stuff in there. It doesn’t come out until November, but I’m a sucker for biographies in general, but especially of authors. I will be sure to get my hands on this one.
Here’s the link to the article that I read on CBS News.
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Interesting! I’m looking forward to learning what’s in there–maybe we’ll see a side of Twain that we didn’t know existed!
Wow. I’ve read Twain’s memoir Life on the Mississippi, but there were certainly no scandalous aspects of that book. I wonder what this new autobiography will reveal? I love Twain and his characters. I’m sure that whatever he wrote in this newly uncovered text will be just as grand as the rest of his writing.