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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 by Mark Twain ed. by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith (review)

In 2010, the University of California Press published Volume 1 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and got a swift surprise. The Press hadn’t taken into account that Samuel L. Clemens himself had outdone the publisher’s marketing department more than a century before. The editors had expected sales of about 7,500 to scholars and libraries. But the media got hold of a key fact: Clemens liked to say that his autobiography should not be published for one hundred years. As we all know, the news went viral: A long silence was ending, Mark Twain’s secrets were coming out. His ghost presumably looked on with approval as the first run vanished from bookstore shelves and customers clamored for more. The Press regrouped, and by the end of the year nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold. Of course, though the subtlety was beyond the grasp of many interviewers, scholars had had access to the raw materials from which the new publication was constructed for decades. Various editors had published various “ autobiographies” drawing heavily from this material, and even Clemens himself had broken his own rule and published parts of it while he was still alive. (The sadly missed Michael Kiskis’s Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography has made Clemens’s North American Review version readily available and is brilliantly presented.) Now Volume 2 has come out—another 456 pages to add to the original 265. Yes, both volumes look the same size and weigh about four pounds each. R E V I E W S