Mark Twain Returns to the Best Seller Lists

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Link to November 20 New York Times article, "Mark Twain’s Autobiography Flying Off the Shelves".

Excerpt:  When editors at the University of California Press pondered the possible demand for “Autobiography of Mark Twain,” a $35, four-pound, 500,000-word doorstopper of a memoir, they kept their expectations modest with a planned print run of 7,500 copies.

Now it is a smash hit across the country, landing on best-seller lists and going back to press six times, for a total print run — so far — of 275,000. The publisher cannot print copies quickly enough, leaving some bookstores and online retailers stranded without copies just as the holiday shopping season begins.

Related articles:
100 years later, the unexpurgated Mark Twain.  (7/11/2010)
Expect to see Mark Twain on the nonfiction best-seller list this fall.  (5/24/2010)