Heidi Miller’s Reviews > Mark Twain > Status Update

- became pro women’s suffrage, but his racism persisted
- trip to Germany with Libby, Suzy, and kids, where they learned German and bought too much

- always thought publishers were cheating him, even when he was the publisher
- Tom Sawyer was a flop, partially because it was printed without permission in Canada
- always overspending on his house
- Libby edited his work, except the raunchy 1601
- The Prince and the Pauper about switching places, social commentary with minimal wit
- former Confederate soldier who spoke with and for Grant

- talked to a black servant and was shocked to hear her story of being sold and her family broken apart; moved and wrote a story about it
- enchanted in a trip to england and the English countryside and his hero-like reception there
- lived next door to Harriet Beecher Stowe and counted Turgenev and Edison as friends
- terrible businessmen who invested in bad insurance schemes but passed in shares in the telephone

Married sickly heiress Libby, who somewhat reformed him. He took his young son Langdon on a carriage ride in the cold. When the child soon after died of diphtheria, He blamed himself. Moved to Hartford.

- went to Sandwich Islands and stayed at Volcano House!
- Survivors are f the Hornet lost at sea for 43 days landed in Hawaii, and he was first to file the story. Became famous for it.
- always looking for money and status; tried mining silver in Nevada
- Lectured about Hawaii and big hit
- MM Fairbanks in quaker cruise—wanted women tin”return” him and called her “mother” 🤮