Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir
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NEW YORK – It's never too late: Mark Twain is back on the best-seller lists.
Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of his autobiography, released 
in full upon the centennial of Twain's death, have for the past few days placed 
the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com. It is outpacing 
new works by Ken Follett, John Grisham and Jon Stewart.
"The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1" comes out Nov. 15 from the 
University of California Press, which already has increased the first printing 
from 50,000 copies to 75,000, the publisher said Tuesday. The book is a highly 
unusual hit, not only because it was written so long ago, but because the actual 
text is an assembly of remembrances, commentaries, newspaper clippings and 
journal entries. Twain had worked on his memoir for years and never finished it.
Excerpts have appeared over the past several decades, but Twain's strong 
opinions on current affairs and other matters were left out, at his request. He 
had said that it was best to wait 100 year after his death for the whole book to 
be released.