Alan Gribben, official biographer of Harry Huntt Ransom of the University of Texas, was interviewed by Austin Downey for the Ransom Center Magazine.
Dr. Gribben taught English literature in the Department of English in Austin, Texas, for seventeen years. Downey asks Gribben about his research methods to find Mark Twain’s books, his major discoveries, and the holdings of Twain items in the Ransom Center. Gribben’s lifelong study, Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading will be published by NewSouth Books in 2019.