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Re: Best Twain Biography
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"Lowry, Richard S" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:05:24 +0000
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Tim:
I’ve used the Powers with great success. It’s well written and smart—gives good background to the kind of things undergraduates need to know, and supplements his work well.
Rich Lowry

On 11/14/16, 10:55 PM, "Mark Twain Forum on behalf of Tim Esh" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

    Sorry for spamming your inboxs, but perhaps the third time (from my other
    email account) is the trick.
    
    I=E2=80=99m designing an advanced undergraduate seminar on Mark Twain. I wa=
    nt to
    include a critical biography, and after some research, I am currently
    considering assigning the 2005 Ron Powers biography _Mark Twain: A Life_.
    I=E2=80=99m curious what biographies others recommend (and perhaps why).
    Thanks,
    Tim
    
    P.S. Oddly, my messages made it onto the form archives without
    transmogrification into gibberish. <
    https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1611&L=3Dtwain-l&T=3D0&P=3D724=
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