Autobiography of Mark Twain
Volume 1
Edited by
Harriet Elinor Smith
Associate Editors
Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank,
Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick
Contributing Editors
Natalia Cecire, Michelle Coleman, George Derk,
Christine Hong, Rachel Perez, Leslie Walton
A Publication of the Mark Twain Project
of The Bancroft Library
General Editor, Robert H. Hirst
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
2010
The Mark Twain Project is an editorial and publishing program of
The Bancroft Library, working since 1967 to
create a comprehensive
critical edition of everything Mark Twain wrote.
This volume is the first one in that edition to be published simultaneously
in print and as an electronic text at
http://www.marktwainproject.org.
The textual commentaries for all Mark Twain texts in this volume
are published only here.
Board of Directors of the Mark Twain Project
Jo Ann Boydston
Laura Cerruti
Don L. Cook
Frederick Crews
Charles B. Faulhaber
Peter E. Hanff
Thomas C. Leonard
Michael Millgate
George A. Starr
G. Thomas Tanselle
Lynne Withey