Mark Twain in the Margins

The common characterization of Mark Twain as an uneducated and improvisational writer took hold largely because of the novelist''s own frequent claims about his writing practices. But using recently discovered evidence--Twain''s marginal notes in books he consulted as he worked on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court--Joe Fulton argues for a reconsideration of scholarly views about Twain''...