Mark Twain, Man in White:
The Grand Adventure of His Final Years
**Michael Shelden is the author of three previous biographies, including Orwell, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book.

**For 12 years he was a Features Writer for The Daily Telegraph (London) and a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. His work has also appeared in The Shakespeare Quarterly, Victorian Studies, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

**He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches literature and writing.
Praise for Michael Shelden's Previous Works:

"Mr. Shelden . . . deserves high praise not only for factual accuracy, but for the unassuming skill with which the very taste and smell of the period are evoked." --Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, on Friends of Promise

"Brilliant . . . Michael Shelden's book hasn't a dull page." --Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, on Graham Greene

"Shelden handles Orwell's conflicting aspects with great skill--brilliantly in fact."--Anthony Powell, author of A Dance to the Music of Time, on Orwell: The Authorized Biography

"Deeply and honestly researched . . . . At every stage of Orwell's life Shelden comes up with news."--Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, on Orwell: The Authorized Biography

"Shelden's prose has the Orwellian virtues of clarity and honesty."--Daily Mail, London

"Magnificent history."--The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines on Friends of Promise

"Masterful."--London Magazine on Graham Greene



What's Next?

A new study of Winston Churchill with new information drawn from archives on both sides of the Atlantic. To be published soon by Simon & Schuster.