Mark Twain: A Public Image as Tailored as His Snow-White Suits
In 1907 Mark Twain, America’s best-loved living author, visited England in a blaze of glory. Among the fellow literary lights he met there were Rudyard Kipling, who described the camera shutters around Twain “click-clicking like gun locks,” and George Bernard Shaw. “He is in very much the same position as myself,” Shaw said of Twain. “He has to put matters in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang him believe he is joking.” Read more…
