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MTJ Legacy Scholar

The Mark Twain Journal has selected Alan Gribben as the Fall 2025 Legacy Scholar. Read the Contents Page with Irene Wong’s annotations to the Fall 2025 issue here.

Companion Novels HF and TS Available in Translated Dialect Editions

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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Best Summaries of Research into Twain’s Reading

When asked which essays summarize Mark Twain’s reading, scholar Alan Gribben listed three: “Reading,” Mark Twain in Context, ed. John Bird. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 14-23. (The best condensation of Alan Gribben’s 50 years of research into Twain’s reading.) “Mark Twain Abroad: Travel Writing,” A First Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor, eds….

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Harry Huntt Ransom: Intellect in Motion

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…

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Alan Gribben

In a 2022 interview Alan Gribben defends his n-word-free edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Clay S. Jenkinson, humanities scholar, historian, and founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center, conducted this interview. The NewSouth Edition and the Original Text Edition of both Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are available from https://ugapress.org/imprints/newsouth-books/ (NewSouth Books merged with UGA…

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