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Books: (Biography and Reference)

Aller, Susan Biven. Mark Twain.
(Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 2001).

Andrews, Ken. Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle.
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1950).

Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain.
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966).

LeMaster, J.R. and James D. Wilson, editors. Mark Twain Encyclopedia.
(New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993).

Meltzer, Milton. Mark Twain: A Pictorial Biography.
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960).

Rasmussen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A-Z.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Salsbury, Edith Colgate, arranger and editor. Susy and Mark Twain.
(New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965).

Ward, Geoffrey C. Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography.
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).

Neider, Charles (editor). The Autobiography of Mark Twain.
(New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1959).

Budd, Louis. Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays.
(1865-1910, in two volumes). (New York: The Library of America, 1992).

Mark Twain's Letters
(both University of California editions and earlier compilations).

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals
University of California Press (three volumes).

www.boondocksnet.com
Useful site covering all aspects of Twain. Special focus on his anti-imperialist writings.

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/
The Mark Twain Papers & Project at Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley - the largest collection of Clemens family papers.

www.twainquotes.com
Collection of Twain quotes with citations, organized alphabetically by key word.

www.elmira.edu/academics/ar_marktwain.shtml
Elmira College and Center for Mark Twain Studies with historical information and contemporary program information.

www.marktwainmuseum.org
Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, MO. Useful reference information as well as visiting.

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
Focuses on Innocents Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.

www.victoriana.com
Useful information about life in the Victorian era including contemporary magazine articles.