Mark Twain’s Covert War with His Maker — “When Mark Twain died in 1910, he was an international superstar and an American institution. He was cheered at home and abroad for his droll wit, frontier bluffness, and corn-pone wisdom. ..

Only a handful of intimates knew this revered creator of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn had died a bilious adversary of the Almighty.” unquiet mind [via wood s lot]