Gary Scharnhorst, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews and Mark Twain in His Own Time, a collection of reminiscences by his friends and acquaintances; and biographies of Horatio Alger Jr., Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bret Harte, Kate Field, and Julian Hawthorne. He is also the editor of the journal American Literary Realism and the editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship. He is currently at work on a multivolume biography of Twain.
