'Sam Clemens and Mark Twain: Life and Times of a Mysterious Twin' with Jim Warren

Jim Warren, Professor of English Emeritus, presents the first session from the Alumni College's "The Life and Times of Mark Twain." If you search for the works of Mark Twain in any public library, look under the letter "C," for Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). One of the most beloved of American writers, Mark Twain was actually an invention. When we think of Twain, we imagine the wry humorist in the white suit, a celebrity stage performer reading his works and telling his stories to audiences in the American era he called "the Gilded Age." But we could also imagine Twain and Clemens as twins, a man and an image that are not always distinguishable from one another.