Events

An enduring mystery in Mark Twain's life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910. Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twains wife of thirty-four  years and how those experiences affected him, personally and professionally. Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today and president of Pitzer College, went in search of the one woman whom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain's life during those final years and who possibly held the answer to her questions about Twain's life and writings. Trombly tells the full story through Isabel Lyon's meticulous daily journals, the only detailed record of Twain's last years that exists, journals overlooked by Twain's previous biographers, in Mark Twain's Other Woman.