On Dec 18,  3:54pm, Hiroshi Shiota wrote:
> Subject: When was Huckleberry Finn was written?
>   I am very comfused  because there are many theories about  Mark Twain's
> creative process of Huckleberry Finn.  I have read some book about it
> (Mr.Blair's, Mr.Cummings' , Mr. Quirk's and Mr. Doyno's), but I would like
> to know when Huckleberry Finn was written.
> Thanks for any info,

"The quick success of _Tom Sawyer_ in 1876 moved Mark Twain to begin a
sequel
immediatedly . . . By the end of the summer of 1876, he had written at least
as
far as chapter 16, in which a steamboat smashes Huck and Jim's raft . . .
Three
years later he resumed the story, carrying it to around chapter 21 . . . He
wrote the book's second half around late 1882 and early 1883, adding
significant passages to chapters 12-14 . .  . he pronounced _HF_ done in the
summer of 1883 . . . Through the following year, he edited the book . . .
published December 1884" (_MT A-Z_, Oxford, 228-29)

Also see Doyno's Preface in _Writing _HF__.

thanks,       larry marshburne