Published in 1910, this book is a testament to the long friendship between Howells and Twain. ‘Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes—I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists, ‘ Howells writes; ‘they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens [Twain] was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.’ The second half of the book collects Howells’s perceptive reviews of Twain’s works.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American novelist and critic. He edited the Atlantic Monthly from 1871-1881, where he championed literary realism and advanced the careers of such important American writers as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Henry James. His best known novel is The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).
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