Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, A Biography: The Story of the Literary Genius Who Defined Post-Civil War America, a Nation Finding Itself Again by Justin Kaplan; 1966/2003. Hardcover.

Delves into the conflict between Clemens the man seeking success and Twain the man bound by morals.

With brilliant immediacy, Mr Clemens & Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual personae symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality & freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, & the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn. As Mr Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes & lived the extravagent life that Twain despised. Set against the richly drawn background of the post-Civil War period that Twain dubbed the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens & Mark Twain is sure to entertain & enlighten both general readers & scholars alike.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (1967)