At 4 p.m. this afternoon at the Stanford Bookstore, SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN will share excerpts from The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works. The anthology includes writings by George Orwell, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, William Dean Howells, William James, Helen Keller, Ursula LeGuin, Norman Mailer, Somerset Maugham, H.L. Mencken, Barack Obama, Eugene O’Neill, Franklin Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Gore Vidal, Richard Wright and others.
As the literary world celebrates the 100th anniversary of Twain’s death as well as the 175th year of his birth, Fishkin, professor in the Department of English who has written dozens of books on Twain, has been a most sought-after source of Twain expertise.
This week alone, she has been quoted in the Boston Globe, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and USA Today. She’s also featured in a recent segment on Minnesota Public Radio.
For more on what Fishkin has been up to of late, visit The Book Haven.
—Cynthia Haven
