Category: Mark Twain Scholarship
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 Biographies & 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
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.
2021 Eugene Current-Garcia Award
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 Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar. The Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar is selected annually by the Association of College…
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…
“Why would one man read Mark Twain’s whole library?”
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Publishers’ Weekly Review of MTLR
“Labor of love . . . meticulously chronicles Mark Twain’s library and literary influences. . . . Scrupulously researched.”–Publishers’ Weekly, January 2019
Ransom Center Magazine features Alan Gribben
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…
Praise for Mark Twain’s Literary Resources
Alan Gribben is a scholar’s scholar, and Mark Twain’s Literary Resources is his masterwork. It will retain its fertile usefulness so long as Twain studies exist. Volume One, now available, isn’t just a bounteous treasure of information and an important corrective to the most common misperception of Twain. It’s also an engaging record of Gribben’s…
Dr. Alan Gribben, Scholar and Editor 