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• Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Mark Twain's Letters (all content published to date in this edited series, covering 1853-1880 so far; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1988-2007), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML with commentary at marktwainproject.org)
• Mark Twain's Letters, Arranged with Comment by Albert Bigelow Paine, by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Mark Twain as Critic (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sydney J. Krause (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Joe B. Fulton (PDF files at Ohio State)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Mark Twain Journal (partial serial archives)
• Mark Twain Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Karen Lystra (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Hartford: The American Pub. Co., 1898), by Mark Twain
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Teacher's Guide (a Big Read guide; Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, ca. 2008), by Michael Palma (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Letters of George Ade (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c1973), by George Ade, ed. by Terence Tobin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
  • Volume 1 (De Commines et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Earl of Clarendon et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Charles V et al): multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
• The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)

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