Autobiography of Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain or Mark Twain’s Autobiography refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography.

Volume 1

The first volume of a three-volume edition of the complete text was published in November 2010, the 100th anniversary year of Twain’s death, edited by the The Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley and published by University of California Press.Churchwell, Sarah (2010-11-01) , The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-11-01.

Twain-scripted Contents

• The Tennessee Land (1870)
• Chapter 1--Early Years in Florida. Missouri (1877)
• Grant Dictations (1885)
• Vienna Sketches (1898)
• Scraps from my Autobiography (1900)
• Chapter IX
• Jeanne d'ARC
• Notes
• Introductions for previous attempts at autobiography
• Preface. As from the grave (for Florence......
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