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Just to add to Shelley's note, some Twain Forum members may not know of
Joyce Carol Oates's book, Wild Nights, in which she writes fictional
versions of incidents in the later lives (and versions of the deaths of)
authors such as Dickinson, Hemingway etc. Her version of Twain focuses
(no surprise) on the Angelfish and gives a very ungenerous version -
though one that may have a certain truth in it -  of his selfishness and
self-protectiveness in one such relationship. My own view is that unless
Oates has good biographical evidence on which her 'fiction' is based
(does anyone know if she has?), then such an imaginative rendition is
unjustified. But she, of course, would not agree. Pete

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