Mark Twain's long-delayed autobiography

After a century of waiting, the world will finally get to see what America's greatest satirist really thought of his friends, countrymen, and lovers

The author at an unknown age.
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At the time of his death in 1910, Mark Twain left behind an unedited 5,000-page manuscript of his autobiography with explicit instructions that the work not be made public for at least 100 years. In November, the University of California, Berkeley, will publish the first volume of the writings in what eventually will be a trilogy.

Why the century-long hold on publishing the work?

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