One of my professors at Portland State, Peter Carafiol introduced me to FATE OF HUMOR.  For me it was as a lightening bolt struck me at the heart and soul of SLC / MT.  Cox's new introduction to a paperback edition to FATE  of some 10 years past is also worth finding and reading.  And I will to my bookshelf now re-wander his pages.  

My deepest regards to his family in this time.

Gordon Snedecor in Portland, OREGON

> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:20:57 -0600
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: James M. Cox
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> 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