Desert Hawk Books

 

Mark Twain and Me
A Little Girl's Friendship with Mark Twain

Dorothy Quick

 

232  pages

Paperback

Quantity:   $9.95 & S/H  

 

Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Dorothy Quick met aboard the S.S. Minnetonka in 1907. He was seventy-two years old, she almost eleven. The two began a great friendship that would endure until his death some years later. Dorothy became a frequent houseguest of Twain's, both at his Tuxedo Park home, in New York City, and in Redding, Connecticut. Her recollections of life in those places dispel the image of a man bitter and pessimistic in his later years, revealing him instead as warm and fun-loving. Together they read his stories, which she knew well and loved, and he encouraged her to write, forming the "Authors' League for Two."

"This may not be the most important book ever published about Mark Twain, but it is certainly the most charming and delightful. It corrects the image of Mark Twain during his last years which many people have in their minds. . . . He was still capable of boundless tenderness, and willing to take any amount of trouble to please a child."- Edward Wagenknecht, literary critic and author of numerous works on Mark Twain