Mark Twain: A Life

Mark Twain: A Life is Ron Powers' exhaustive portrait of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' rise from Missouri miscreant to American icon. Powers, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Flags of My Fathers and has studied Twain for more than 20 years, uses the resources of the Twain Project and his own storytelling gift to bring this complex and uniquely American writer to vivid life.