Film Footage of Mark Twain
Today is the birthday of Samuel Clemens, ak.k.a Mark Twain (1835-1910). Huckleberry Finn was one of my favorite books as a child; I quote the passages about the Duke and the Dauphin extensively in my book No Applause. But this morning, a distinctly non-literary thrill. A few months before he died, Twain was photographed gallyvanting [...]