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An annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain. Twain discusses matters as varied as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humour, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers.

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist?

Paul Laurence Dunbar was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and appreciation. These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal his personal and literary life.