This is part one of a two-part article. Essayist Anaïs Nin famously said: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Our feelings are not only an integral part of our moral, social and ...

The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, edited by Harriet E. Smith, et al. (University of California Press, 760 pp., $34.95) In his opinion all biographies, even those told in the first person, were ...