Biography begins when Mark Twain was 31 years old and a journalist in San Francisco, and continues until his death in 1910. Contains 16 pages of black and white photographs, and also an index.

(Key Words: Biography, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Joseph Twichell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, James W. Paige, Paula Clemens Moffett, Rudyard Kipling, William Dean Howells, Ulysses S. Grant, Mary Baker Eddy Orion Clemens, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Clemens, 19th Century American Literature, Henry Ward Beecher, Thomas Bailey Aldrich).