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An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events of

his last decade, from 1900 to 1910.

Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever

determined exactly what took place during those final years after

the death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how those

experiences affected him, personally and professionally. For nearly

a century, it was believed that Twain went to his death a beloved,

wisecracking iconoclastic American (“I am not an American,” Twain

wrote; “I am the American”), undeterred by life’s sorrows and

challenges.

Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain

scholar at work today, suspected that there had to be more to the

story than the cultivated, carefully constructed version that had

been intact for so long. Trombley went in search of the one woman

whom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain’s life

during those final years and who possibly held the answers to her

questions about Twain’s life and writings.

Now, in Mark Twain’s Other Woman, after sixteen

years of research, uncovering never-before-read papers and personal

letters, Trombley tells the full story through Isabel Lyon’s

meticulous daily journals, the only detailed record of Twain’s last

years that exists, journals overlooked by Twain’s previous

biographers.

For one hundred years, Isabel Van Kleek Lyon has

been the mystery woman in Mark Twain’s life. Twain spent the bulk

of his last six years in the company of Isabel, who was responsible

for overseeing his schedule and finances, nursing him through

several illnesses, managing his increasingly unmanageable

daughters, running his household, arranging amusements, as well as

presiding over the construction of his final residence. Isabel Lyon

also served as Twain’s adoring audience (she called him “the

King”), listening attentively as he read aloud to her what he’d

written that day. She was Twain’s gatekeeper to an enthralled

public.

Trombley writes about what happened between them

that resulted in the dramatic breakup of their relationship; about

how, in Twain’s final months, he gave bitter, angry press

conferences denouncing her; how he ranted in personal letters that

she had injured him, calling her, “a liar, a forger, a thief, a

hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator,

a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction.”

Trombley writes that Twain’s invective bordered on obsession (he

wrote about Isabel for hours every day, even while suffering from

angina pains and gout attacks) and about how, despite the

inordinate attention he gave her before his death, Isabel Lyon has

remained a friendless ghost haunting the margins of Twain’s

biography.

For decades, biographers deliberately omitted

her from the official Twain story. Her potentially destructive

power was so great that Twain’s handpicked hagiographer, Albert

Bigelow Paine, allowed only one timorous reference to her in his

massive three-volume work, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912).

Isabel Lyon was a forgotten woman, “so private,”

she wrote in her journal, “that the very mention of me [was] with

held from the world. . .”

This riveting, dark story that “the King”

determined no one would ever tell is now revealed at last.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Laura Skandera Trombley was raised in Southern California and

attended Pepperdine University, where she earned her BA and MA, and

the University of Southern California, where she earned a PhD in

English literature. She is the president of Pitzer College in

Claremont, California, and is the author of Mark Twain in the

Company of Women.

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An enduring mystery in Mark Twain’s life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910.

Despite many Twain biographies, no one has ever determined exactly what took place during those final years after the death of Twain’s wife of thirty-four years and how those experiences affected him, personally and professionally. For nearly a century, it was believed that Twain went to his death a beloved, wisecracking iconoclastic American (“I am not an American,” Twain wrote; “I am the American”), undeterred by life’s sorrows and challenges.

Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, suspected that there had to be more to the story than the cultivated, carefully constructed version that had been intact for so long. Trombley went in search of the one woman whom she suspected had played the largest role in Twain’s life during those final years and who possibly held the answers to her questions about Twain’s life and writings.

Now, in Mark Twain’s Other Woman , after sixteen years of research, uncovering never-before-read papers and personal letters, Trombley tells the full story through Isabel Lyon’s meticulous daily journals, the only detailed record of Twain’s last years that exists, journals overlooked by Twain’s previous biographers.

For one hundred years, Isabel Van Kleek Lyon has been the mystery woman in Mark Twain’s life. Twain spent the bulk of his last six years in the company of Isabel, who was responsible for overseeing his schedule and finances, nursing him through several illnesses, managing his increasingly unmanageable daughters, running his household, arranging amusements, as well as presiding over the construction of his final residence. Isabel Lyon also served as Twain’s adoring audience (she called him “the King”), listening attentively as he read aloud to her what he’d written that day. She was Twain’s gatekeeper to an enthralled public.

Trombley writes about what happened between them that resulted in the dramatic breakup of their relationship; about how, in Twain’s final months, he gave bitter, angry press conferences denouncing her; how he ranted in personal letters that she had injured him, calling her, “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction.” Trombley writes that Twain’s invective bordered on obsession (he wrote about Isabel for hours every day, even while suffering from angina pains and gout attacks) and about how, despite the inordinate attention he gave her before his death, Isabel Lyon has remained a friendless ghost haunting the margins of Twain’s biography.

For decades, biographers deliberately omitted her from the official Twain story. Her potentially destructive power was so great that Twain’s handpicked hagiographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, allowed only one timorous reference to her in his massive three-volume work, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912).

Isabel Lyon was a forgotten woman, “so private,” she wrote in her journal, “that the very mention of me [was] with held from the world. . .”

This riveting, dark story that “the King” determined no one would ever tell is now revealed at last.

From the Hardcover edition.