What a tremendous loss--friend, scholar, and professor--Jim will be missed. Jocelyn Sent from my iPad On Jan 27, 2012, at 14:20, Jerome Loving <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > James M. Cox, author of MARK TWAIN AND THE FATE OF HUMOR and countless > essays on Twain and other American authors died yesterday at his home in > Independence, Virginia. He was 86. > > Jerome Loving