The Dark Laughter of Mark Twain

  That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. —Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   “Biographies are but the clothes and the buttons of a man,” Mark Twain wrote, “—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.” Yet he befriended Albert Bigelow Paine, who had ingratiated himself and even […]