5, 000 words in three volumes, the first volume is to be publish this fall, one hundred years after the author's death. Why is this of interest? The author is Mark Twain.( Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The work is his autobiography.

I am a fan of Mark Twain, the writer and the person. I am looking forward to reading his autobiography. The University of California Berkeley is the publisher. He left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death. He died in 1910.

Quotes from excepts of the work appeared on line yesterday, tidbits of some of the frank and earthy things he said about his contemporaries, as well as reminders of his sharp and keen mind. "He had doubts about God, and in the autobiography, he questions the imperial mission of the US in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He's also critical of [Theodore] Roosevelt, and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. Twain also disliked sending Christian missionaries to Africa. He said they had enough business to be getting on with at home: with lynching going on in the South, he thought they should try to convert the heathens down there."