BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted BOOKS _The Ballad of Blind Tom: Slave Pianist, America's Lost Musical Genius_. By Deirdre O'Connell. Hardcover. 288 pages. New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-59020-143-5. $24.95. O'Connell examines in detail the life of Blind Tom, an autistic savant, as he rose from slavery to his career as a renowned entertainer in the nineteenth century. O'Connell briefly addresses Mark Twain's lifelong fascination with Blind Tom. (NONFICTION) Amazon webpage for this book is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590201434/twainwebmarktwaiA ~~~~~ _F. Luis Mora: America's First Hispanic Master_. By Lynne Pauls Baron and Peter Hastings Falk, ed. Hardcover. 344 pages. Falk Art Reference, 2008. ISBN: 978-093208762. $64.95. Baron briefly discusses Mark Twain's connection with artist F. Luis Mora who contributed illustrations to several of Twain's short stories as well as Mark Twain's autobiography when it was serialized in the _Sunday Magazine_ edition of newspapers nationwide between 1907 and 1908. (NONFICTION) Amazon webpage for this book is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932087620/twainwebmarktwaiA