Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain's Closest Friend

by SteveCourtney (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $62.85

  Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain's best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the odd couple image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds various dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship.