The new Translated Dialect Edition, Illustrated of Tom Sawyer is now available from Black Belt Press! “A welcome alternative for schools and teachers.”–Mark Twain Forum, May 2025 Alan Gribben and Irene Wong have co-edited the Translated Dialect Edition, Illustrated of Huckleberry Finn. Alan previously edited the Original Language Editions and NewSouth Editions (the latter omitting…
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MTLR’s New Covers from UGA 2025
The University of Georgia Press has released with new covers Volumes One and Two of Mark Twain’s Literary Resources. Considering that MTLR, Volumes One and Two combined, contains over 1300 pages, a few errors were inevitable. Those are corrected and more entries are added in this revised edition. ABOVE: Amazon currently has both volumes of…
“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…
American Realism in 1840s
“The use of the n-word in the 1840s when HUCKLEBERRY FINN is set was historically accurate in in keeping with the American Realism Movement of which Twain was a proponent.” –Alan Gribben The Original Text Edition (and the NewSouth Edition) are available at Amazon https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+alan+gribben+books&rlz=1C1EJFC_enUS868US868&oq=amazon+alan+gribben+books&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.8542j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1 and UGA Press https://ugapress.org/imprints/newsouth-books/ (NewSouth Books merged with UGA Press…
“Textual purists would rather the book not be read at all than to make a change that would encourage readership of a great American novel.” –Alan Gribben
The NewSouth Edition that removed a racial slur and caused a “controversy.”
A Peek into Volume Two
All of Alan Gribben published works are available from Amazon.
Rasmussen’s Tom Sawyer Critical Insights
R. Kent Rasmussen collected and edited essays about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) in a Critical Insights volume (Salem Press/EBSCO, 2022). Sixteen contributors–Rasmussen, Peter Messent, Alan Gribben, Joe B. Fulton, Philip Bader, John Bird, Kevin MacDonnell, K. Patrick Ober, Linda Morris, Hannah J. D. Wells, Kerry Driscoll, John H. Davis and Hugh H. Davis,…
MTLR is Amazon’s #1 release in Literary Bibliographies & Indexes
Thank you! Half a century of research into Mark Twain’s reading and literary resources are in these pages. Check out my Reader’s Guide to find everything you’re curious about in the Annotated Catalog. Alan All my titles are available on Amazon https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+alan+gribben+books&rlz=1C1EJFC_enUS868US868&oq=amazon+alan+gribben+books&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.8542j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1
2021 Eugene Current-Garcia Award Ceremony via Zoom
Alan Gribben, recipient of the 2021 Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinguished Literary Scholar, talks about “Living in Mark Twain’s Mind: A Fifty-Year Puzzle” via Zoom. The Monroeville Literary Festival and the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama are pleased to announce that Dr. Alan Gribben has been selected as the recipient of the 2021…
Mark Twain in Context: “Reading”
John Bird, a founding editor of The Mark Twain Annual and current author of the yearly Mark Twain chapter in American Literary Scholarship, here assembled thirty-four Twain scholars qualified to comment on five aspects of his complex carer: biography, literary contexts within which he wrote, historical and cultural contexts of his time, reception and criticism…
Play in Mark Twain’s Writings
Alan Gribben and Sarah Fredericks co-authored “Playing at Work and Working at Play in Mark Twain’s Writings” (pp. 45-63). They endeavored to recognize and cite (in notes and an extensive bibliography) the work of several dozen previous scholars in this beckoning area of Twain studies. Gribben and Fredericks suggest that the abbreviated childhood of Sam…
Dr. Alan Gribben, Scholar and Editor 