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Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Dorothy Quick met aboard the S. S. Minnetonka in 1907. He was seventy-two years old, she almost eleven. The two began a great friendship that would endure until his death some years later. Dorothy became a frequent houseguest of Twain’s, both at his Tuxedo Park home, in New York City, and in Redding Connecticut. Her recollections of life in those places dispel the image of Twain as a man bitter and pessimistic in his later years, revealing him instead as warm and fun-loving. Together they read his stories, which she knew well and loved, and he encouraged her to write, forming the “Author’s League for Two.”
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Dorothy Quick justified Mark Twain's judgment of her by writing many collections of bold and lyrical poetry and several successful mystery novels—fifteen books in all.
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“Quick includes all the letters she received from her honorary grandfather—enough in itself to make her book a must for every Twain collector."— New York Times
"This may not be the most important book ever published about Mark Twain, but it is certainly the most charming and delightful. It corrects the image of Mark Twain during his last years which many people have in their minds. . . . He was still capable of boundless tenderness, and willing to take any amount of trouble to please a child."—Edward Wagenknecht, literary critic and author of The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain
"Quick . . . successfully sustains the tone of wide-eyed wonder, the sort she experienced as a girl. . . . Interesting for its glimpses of Mark's tastes, temper, and methods of work."— Library Journal
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- PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
- Publication date1961
- ISBN 10 0806111224
- ISBN 13 9780806111223
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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