By Irene Wong In 2008, the Harry Huntt Ransom Centennial Birthday Celebration was held at the University of Texas at Austin. After the program and among the events was the book signing of Harry Huntt Ransom: Intellect in Motion, an official biography by Alan Gribben. Alan “endeavored to tell virtually the entire story of the…
Month: August 2024
“Trading Boyhoods: William Dean Howells and Mark Twain”
The Spring 2024 issue of the MARK TWAIN JOURNAL contains my latest study related to Twain’s reading, an essay describing how Mark Twain and his friend William Dean Howells seem to have supplied each other with topics and situations they employed in their autobiographical and fictional writings about boyhood. Congratulations to Joe B. Fulton for…
Dr. Alan Gribben, Scholar and Editor 