
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
This collection features the 258 known publicly-printed interviews of Mark Twain, compiled by Gary Scharnhorst and published by the University of Alabama Press. The interviews are arranged chronologically from 1871 to 1910, covering Twain's early reputation, his lecture tours, travels, and later years. The audio recordings are in the public domain.
Episodes
005 - Interview 5: ''A Connecticut Carpet-bag,'' New York World, Dec. 24, 1876, page 2
006 - Interview 6: ''Mark Twain's Tenets,'' Boston Globe, Mar. 19, 1877, page 3, col. 2
018 - Interview 18: ''Mark Twain's Travels,'' St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 13, 1882, page 8
000 - Introduction
009 - Interview 9 : ''The Start for Germany,'' New York Times, April 12, 1878, page 8
022 - Interview 22: ''Mark Twain and the President,'' Philadelphia Press, Nov. 27, 1884, page 3
002 - Interview 2: ''Mark Twain as a Pedestrian,'' Boston Evening Journal, Nov. 14, 1874, page 2
017 - Interview 17: [Commodore] R[ollingpin], ''A Day with Mark Twain'' (May 12, 1882), Rollingpin's Humorous Illustrated Annual (New York,
008 - Interview 8: ''Mark Twain and His Chinaman,'' Garth, New York Daily Graphic, May 3, 1877, page 438
010 - Interview 10: ''Mark Twain Interviewed,'' Richard Whieing, New York World, May 11, 1879, page 1
003 - Interview 3: "Mark Twain: His Recent Walking Feat," Hartford Times, Nov. 14, 1874
013 - Interview 13: ''Mark Twain's Return,'' New York Herald, Sep. 3, 1879, page 3
001 - Interview 1: ''Brevities'' - Dec. 21, 1871
015 - Interview 15: ''An 'Innocent Abroad': 'Mark Twain' in Montreal,'' Montreal Gazette, Nov. 28, 1881, page 3
021 - Interview 21: ''Mark twain as Lecturer,'' New York World, Nov. 20,1884, page 5
011 - Interview 11: ''Mark Twain Back Again,'' New York Sun, Sep. 3, 1879, page 1
016 - Interview 16: ''An 'Innocent' Interviewed: Mark Twain Pays a Visit to St. Louis,'' St. Pouis Post-Dispatch, May 12, 1882, page 2
020 - Interview 20: ''Mark Twain and the Police,'' Boston Herald, Nov. 16, 1884 page 16
014 - Interview 14: ''Mr. Twain Again with Us,'' New York World, Sep. 3, 1879, page 1
030 - ''The Humorists Interviewed,'' Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 3, 1885, page 4
004 - Interview 4: ''Political Views of a Humorist,'' New York Herald, Aug. 28th, 1876, page 3
024 - Interview 24: ''Mark Twain Encountered,'' Rochester Herald, Dec. 8, 1884, page 8
007 - Interview 7 - Baltimore Gazette, c. Apr. 27,1877, titled ''Mark Twain's Opinion'', New York World, Apr. 28, 1877, page 5
019 - Interview 19: ''Mr. Mark Twain Excited on Seeing the Name of Capt. C.C. Duncan in Print,'' New York Times, June 10, 1883, page 1
025 - ''The Genial Mark: An Interview,'' Toronto Globe, Dec. 9, 1884, page 2
026 - ''The Funny Men in Bed,'' Detroit Post, Dec. 17, 1884, page 4
012 - Interview 12: ''Mark Twain Home Again,'' New York Times, Sep. 3, 1879, page 8
029 - ''Mark Twain,'' Pittsburgh Post, Dec. 29, 1884, page 4
023 - Interview 23: ''Mark Twain's Ideas: A Talk with the Humorist,'' Blatimore American, Nov. 29, 1884, page 4
027 - ''Mark Twain Gets Shaved,'' Pittburgh Penny Press, Dec. 29, 1884
028 - ''Talk with Twain,'' Pittsburgh Chronicle, Dec. 29, 1884, page 1
031 - ''A Great Humorist,'' Louisville Post, Jan. 5 1885, page 1
035 - ''Clemens and Cable,'' Minneapolis Tribune, Jan. 25, 1885, page 3
033 - ''Two of a Kind: Samuel L. Clemens and George W. Cable,'' St. Louis Chronicle, Jan. 9, 1885
038 - Luke Sharp, ''The Re-Mark-Able Twain,'' Detroit Free Press, Feb. 15, 1885, page 15
037 - ''Mark Twain Interviewed,'' Lafayette (ind.) Courier, Feb. 6, 1885, page 1
034 - Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat, Jan. 21, 1885
045 - ''The Insolence of Office,'' New York World, Mar. 23, 1888, page 4
043 - ''Twain in Court,'' Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 3, 1886
052 - Edward W. Bok, ''Literary Leaves: 'Mark Twain' to Live Abroad for Two Years,'' Boston Journal Supplement, May 16, 1891, page 1
048 - '' 'Mark Twain' at Home,'' New York World, Jan. 1890, page 14
051 - ''Mark Twain on Kipling,'' New York World, Aug. 24, 1890, page 8
069 - ''Mark Twain Talks,'' Grand Forks Herald, July 30, 1895, page 4
054 - ''Colony of Mermaids: Mark Twain to Exhibit a Lot of Fish-tailed Girls,'' Chicgo Inter-Ocean, April 15, 1893, page 8
066 - (W.E. Sterner?) ''Mark Twain in Winnipeg,'' Winnipeg Tribune, July 27, 1895, page 5
057 - ''Mark Twain Goes Abroad,'' New York Sun, Aug. 16, 1894, page 3
039 - ''Mark Twain's Wicked Moment,'' Brockville (Can.) Evening Recorder, Feb. 18, 1885, page 1
067 - ''A Chat with Clemens,'' Free Press (Winnipeg), July 27, 1895, page 1
053 - Raymond Blathwait, ''Mark Twain on Humor,'' New York World, May 31, 1891, page 26
040 - ''Table Talk,'' Boston Literary World, May15, 1886, page 172
074 - ''Mark Twain and Major Pond,'' Tacoma Union, Aug. 11, 1895, page 6
041 - ''Mark Twain Abroad,'' St. Paul and Minneapolis Daily Pioneer Press, June 30, 1886, page 7
079 - ''Mark Twain Talks,'' Daily News-Advertiser (Vancouver), Aug. 20, 1895, page 5
064 - ''Twain,'' Minneapolis Penny Press, July 23, 1895, page 1
077 - ''Mark Twain To Pay All,'' San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 17, 1895, page 2
042 - ''Assuming the Children,'' Chicago Tribune, July 9, 1886, page 1
032 - ''Cable and Twain: The Author and the Humorist Arrive in the City Today,'' St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 9, 1885, page 7
056 - ''Mark Twain in Town,'' New York Sun, April 15, 1894, page 5
036 - ''Talk with Mark Twain,'' Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, Jan. 29, 1885, page 2
078 - ''Mark Twain Unsuited,'' New Whatcom (Washington) Blade, Aug. 17, 1895
083 - Herbert Low, "Mark Twain: The Humorist's Arrival," Evening News (Sydney), Sept. 16, 1895, page 4
047 - R[0bert] D[onald], ''Mark Twain and His Book,'' Pall Mall Gazette (London), Dec. 23, 1889, page 1-2
072 - Marie Jousaye, ''Mark Twain Interviewed,'' Globe (Toronto), Aug. 10, 1895, page 11
044 - Edwin J. Park, ''A Day with Mark Twain,'' Chicago Tribune, Sept. 19, 1886, page 12
058 - ''Mark Twain in Paris,'' New York Sun, Jan. 27, 1895, sec.3, 4
086 - [Herbert Low?] ''A Ramble with Mark Twain: His Views on Men and Things,'' Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Sept. 17, 1895, page 5
068 - ''An Interview,'' Nor'wester (Winnipeg), July 27, 1895, page 1
087 - [Louis Becke?] ''Mark Twain: A Talk about His Books,'' Evening News (Sydney), supplement, Sept. 21, 1895, page 3
049 - ''Mark Twain's Lawsuit,'' Hartford Courant, Jan. 18, 1890, page 1
081 - ''Mark Twain Very Ill,'' New York World, Sept. 4, 1895, page 8
046 - ''Mark Twain Chatty: He Tells of His Former Life as a Reporter,'' St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 19, 1889, page 20
050 - ''Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain,'' New York Herald, Aug. 17, 1890, page 5
055 - ''Mark Twain Gone Abroad,'' St. Louis Republic, April 1, 1894, page 28
071 - ''Mark Twain Arrives in Spokane,'' Spokane Spokesman-Review, Aug. 7, 1895, page 1
061 - Detroit Journal, July 18, 1895, page 5
059 - ''The Henry Murder: Mark Twain Theorizes on the Bloody Hand Prints Found,'' Elmira Advertiser, June 24, 1895, page 5
082 - ''Arrival of Mark Twain'' Morning Herald (Sydney), Sept. 16, 1895, page 4
084 - [Herbert Low?] ''Mark Twain in Sydney: A Further Interview,'' Argus (Melbourne), Sept. 17, 1895, page 5
063 - ''Not 'Roughing It' Now,'' Minneapolis Journal, July 23, 1895, page 6
065 - ''Talk with Mark Twain,'' St. Paul Dispatch, July 24, 1895, page 3











