Mark Twain Wanted to Scalp His Critics

LaToya Jordan bio ↓  ·  August 7th, 2011  ·  filed under Other

Have you checked out Sunday Magazine? It’s writer David Friedman’s site with articles from The New York Times Sunday Magazine exactly 100 years ago from the date he posts.

One of the articles for July 30, 1911, “When Mark Twain Nearly Changed His Literary Career,” features an interview with Twain talking about reviews for The Prince and the Pauper.

“‘…that book brought one of the greatest disappointments I have ever had in my life,’ he presently resumed. ‘It came mighty near changing the entire course of my literary life and incidentally gave me a life-long yearning to kill a critic. I shall never die happy unless I have at least scalped one.’”

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LaToya Jordan is a native Brooklynite whose poetry has appeared in MiPOesias, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The November 3rd Club, The Splinter Generation, qarrtsiluni, and other journals. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and mentors a budding young writer with the organization Girls Write Now. She is inspired by crime dramas and often peruses the web in search of true-life macabre stories for her poetry. Her friends are afraid. She blogs about her writing life at www.latoyalikestowrite.com. More from this author →

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